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Article: Maryknoll marks 25 years since martyrs' deaths.(WORLD)(Maura Clark, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 16, 2005
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Twenty-five years ago this month, four North American churchwomen were raped and murdered in El Salvador by government soldiers. Maura Clark, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel, drawn to El Salvador by the work of the slain Archbishop Oscar Romero, went missing on Dec. 2, 1980. Their bodies were discovered two days later buried in shallow roadside graves by villagers who had discovered their bodies the day before.
Maura Clark and Ita Ford were Maryknoll sisters, working in El Salvador as missionaries. Last week Maryknoll marked its martyrs' deaths with a special Mass and an afternoon of reflection in upstate New York. Families of Srs. Clark and Ford, ...
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