Her husband was skeptical but prayed to Blessed Oscar Romero to save his wife.

Father Grande was known as a champion of the poor and the oppressed at a time when El Salvador was on the threshold of a civil war, a war that eventually killed over 70,000 people.

The victims gave their testimony to another official after the original Vatican envoy had emergency surgery.

Father Moreno described the Hernández government as an authoritarian regime tilting toward a dictatorship. “It is a government that represents a threat to freedom of expression. It is a threat to defenders of human rights, and it is a government that threatens the fundamental rights of Honduran citizens.”

The priests were traveling with four other passengers, all of whom were injured.

Brochero set out to be a pastor, and in the process became the public servant par excellence.