Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fr. Octavio Ortiz Luna (March 22, 1944 January 20, 1979) was a Roman Catholic priest in El Salvador who was assassinated on January 20, 1979. He served under Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez. His murder was characterized by Romero as part of a systematic persecution of the Catholic Church and oppression against efforts to reform a military dictatorship there to guaranty human rights for the poor masses. Fr. Ortiz was born on March 22, 1944 in a town called Agua Blanca in the Municipality of Cacaopera, in the northeastern Salvadoran province of Morazán. Fr. Ortiz was born to peasant parents, Alejandro Ortíz and Exaltación de la Cruz Luna. The Ortíz-Lunas lost four other children, in addition to Octavio, to the bloodshed of the Salvadoran Civil War.