Besides the thousands – hundreds of thousands – of everyday people killed, there were those more notable in the world press, who will be discussed later.

• 24 March 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down at his altar as he was saying mass.

• 12 December 1980, Maryknoll sisters Ita Ford, Maura Clark, Ursuline Sister, Dorothy Kasel, and lay minister, Jean Donovan, were apprehended and killed.

• 16 November 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper/cook and her daughter were murdered.

Oscar Romero has always struck me as such a human person, rather like Peter, as both individually struggled with the reality of being Christ's representative to the people of their pastorate in the time of their leadership. Romero really did not want to be involved in the Liberation Theology Movement, originally only wanting to remain in his conservative, scholarly priestly place, safe in the background, apart from the ongoing war that was affecting both the secular and the Christian world of El Salvador. Born on 15 August 1917, in the Ciudad Barrios of San Miguel (a district near the Honduran border, in the region of Cacahuatique), Romero had been elected bishop as a compromise choice – a safe person whom the conservative bishops trusted. At that time, Romero openly criticized those doing Liberation Theology.