Maryknoll Sisters to honor 4 missionaries killed in El Salvador

[Judi Lynn]

Maryknoll Sisters to honor 4 missionaries killed in El Salvador

Matt Coyne, [e-mail] 6:06 a.m. EST November 20, 2015

The four missionaries were killed Dec. 2, 1980

OSSINING - The Maryknoll Sisters are set to honor four women — two of their own — killed 35 years ago during El Salvador's brutal civil war.

The Catholic missionary group will hold a Mass on Nov. 29 and a prayer service Dec. 2 for Maryknoll sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missioner Jean Donovan, who were killed Dec. 2, 1980. The Mass will be live streamed at maryknollsisters.org/livestream.

Ford, Clark, Kazel and Donovan were killed on a roadside and buried in a shallow grave, just four of the thousands killed, wounded or displaced during the 12-year war between leftist guerrillas and El Salvador's military-lead government.

The two celebrations are part of a five-week long celebration of the four women, which includes social media remembrances posted on Twitter and Facebook.

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/ossining/2015/11/20/maryknoll-salvador-civil-war/76067718/

(Short article, no more at this link.)

[Judi Lynn]

1. ‘On This Day’ 1980: American Nuns Kidnapped, Raped & Murdered by U.S.-Trained Salvadoran Death Squad

‘On This Day’ 1980: American Nuns Kidnapped, Raped & Murdered by U.S.-Trained Salvadoran Death Squad

December 2, 2010 by Brett Wilkins in Latin America/Caribbean, On This Day, Religion, The Best of Moral Low Ground, US Government, War, War Crimes & Atrocities


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Murdered martyrs: (L to R- Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan)
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“Those who work on the side of the poor suffer the same fate as the poor.” So said Archbishop Oscar Romero, the heroic Salvadoran priest who championed the cause of his country’s oppressed masses before being assassinated in March 1980 by a death squad armed, trained and funded by United States.

Archbishop Romero’s spirit lived on in Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel, four American churchwomen who journeyed to war-torn El Salvador to help the poor.

Kazel was an Ursuline nun who taught indigenous peasants to read and write. She also fed the hungry and taught young mothers how to care for their children. Sister Dorothy greatly admired the unflappable courage of the poor in the face of the deadly oppression they faced on a daily basis. She was just as courageous herself, for she knew there was constant danger everywhere around her.

Maura Clarke and Ita Ford were Maryknoll Sisters, a Catholic order dedicated to overseas missionary work. “Sister Maura was generous to a fault,” recalled a friend and fellow Maryknoll sister. “She gave away virtually everything she had except what was on her back.”

More:
http://morallowground.com/2010/12/02/on-this-day-1980-american-nuns-kidnapped-raped-murdered-by-american-trained-salvadoran-death-squad/

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[ck4829]

2. Really puts Kim Davis and a baker or two in perspective.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Surely does! They don't even seem to be part of the same species! n/t

[enough]

4. No mention of the US role in that "military-led government."

Thanks for posting this reminder, and the expanded info in your second post, Judi Lynn.