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A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura
Eileen Markey
On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran military. One of these women was Maryknoll missionary Sr. Maur Clarke, MM. here is her story. Who was this woman in the dirt? What led her to this vicious death with Jean Donovasn and Sisters Dorothy Kazel OSU and Ita Ford MM?
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