Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdémez was born on August 15th, 1917, in San Salvador. At the age of twelve, he was apprenticed to a carpenter. He was later able to attend seminary, but his family’s economic circumstances forced him to withdraw to work in a gold mine. Ultimately he entered another seminary and was eventually sent to the Gregorian University in Rome to study theology. After his ordination to the priesthood, he returned to his native land…