  El Salvador marks Archbishop Oscar Romero's murder  By Julian
Miglierini BBC News, San Salvador  A woman sells T-shirts
printed with Archbishop Romero's image Archbishop Romero: As
much a cultural as religious figure today  Sister Luz Isabel
Cueva vividly remembers the moment Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo
Romero was murdered as he celebrated Mass on 24 March 1980.
"When he finished his sermon, he walked to the middle of the
altar; at that moment, the shot rang out," says Sister Luz
Isabel, who was among the congregation at a private chapel in El
Salvador's capital, San Salvador.  "It sounded like a bomb
explosion. Monsignor Romero held on to the cloth on the altar
for a moment and pulled it off. Then he fell backwards and lay
bleeding at the feet of Christ," she says, standing a few metres
from the exact spot where the Archbishop lay fatally wounded.
Archbishop Oscar Romero - file photo 1977: Appointed Archbishop
of San Salvador 1979: Bloodless coup by reformist army officers;
military-civilian junta installed