Assassination of a Saint
by Matt Eisenbrandt, University of California, £18.99
He was born on the feast of the Assumption, August 15, 1917 – so this year marks the centenary of Blessed Oscar Romero’s birth. There is a widespread and realistic expectation that it will also be the year of his canonisation. In consequence, there is sure to be renewed interest in the circumstances of the shocking assassination of the metropolitan archbishop of San Salvador in 1980, as he celebrated Mass. In 37 years, not a single person in El Salvador has been brought to justice for the crime.
