Archbishop Oscar Romero. Emily Wade Will

Romero y Galdámez, Ejercicios espirituales, 60–61.

65. Father Bernardo Amaya, December 4, 1998, interview with author.

66. Cuba set up four concentration camps after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. They were Tiscornia, Torrens, and Isla de Pinos, where mostly Japanese-Cubans were interned, and Arroyo Arenas, for women. Source: http://www.cuba.com/cuba_detail_1788_world_war_ii.html. The author was unable to learn at which of these Romero and Valladares were imprisoned.

67. Romero and Valladares traveled during the height of German U-boat activity in waters near Cuba, an island nation that held strategic importance as a portal to the Western hemisphere. Between mid-1942 and early 1944, German subs sank seven Cuban ships, killing more than eighty Cuban marines and three Americans.

      Source: http://www.cuba.com/cuba_detail_1788_world_war_ii.html.

68. Romero y Galdámez, “Murió como santo porque vivió como sacerdote,” Chaparrastique, no. 2379, September 2, 1961, 1,8.

69. The bishop died in 1941, at age seventy-three.

70. Romero y Galdámez, “Murió como santo porque vivió como sacerdote,” Chaparrastique, no. 2379, September 2, 1961, 1,8.

      5. A Time to Dig In

      (1944–1967)

      After Father Romero rested three months to restore his strength, the new bishop of San Miguel diocese, Miguel Angel Machado,71 assigned him as parish priest of Anamorós. The parish lay in a poor area in the mountains of the eastern La Unión department.