Today, 14th October 2018, His Holiness Pope Francis canonised Oscar Romero. "I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all Salvadoreans, even those who are going to kill me." These words appeared in a newspaper just two weeks before Archbishop Romero was shot while celebrating Mass in the hospital which had been his home since his enthronement in 1977. Quiet, unassuming, conservative in temperament and regarded by the church