A self-effacing, slightly built man who feels ill at ease in the limelight with a predilection for hour-long ­sermons. Hardly the stuff, you’d think, of a five-star preacher – but then Oscar Arnulfo Romero has always defied neat and easy ­categorisation, as the hundreds of thousands who will gather this weekend in San Salvador, El Salvador’s capital, for his long-awaited beatification, will testify. Latin Americans have enthused about his homilies for the 35 years since his assassination but, for long, the English-speaking world has had to take that recommendation on trust. Not any more.All of Romero’s sermons, from a month after his appointment as Archbishop of San Salvador in February 1977 to his death in March 1980, are being translated into English by J