Bestanddeel 1.80 - El Salvador Missionary Martyrs 1980

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Correspondences, memorial card

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Content for file: El Salvador Missionary Martyrs 1980

Copy of letter from Sisters of St. Benedict Community Council (Sr. Carlita Koch, Prioress), dated December 9, 1980, to Mother Bartholomey, OSU and the Ursuline Community, in re: our condolences and support in the death of Sr. Dorothy Kazel and the other missionaries martyred in El Salvador

Copy of letter from Sisters of St. Benedict Community Council (Sr. Carlita Koch, Prioress), dated December 9, 1980, to Sr. Melinda Roper and Maryknoll Sisters, in re: our condolences and support in the deaths of Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke and the other missionaries martyred in El Salvador

Funeral card for Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Maryknoll missionaries martyred in El Salvador, and typed page with suggestions for letters to the parents of the sisters, the Bishop of El Salvador, the Conference of Religious in El Salvador and Honorable Edmund Muskie, Secretary of State, requesting withdrawal of US military personnel in El Salvador

Photocopy of typed council minutes for October 4, 1986, in re request by Sr. Mary Victor Kercher to be part of delegation of women religious to El Salvador from November 29 to December 6, 1986

Sisters Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U., Maura Clarke, M.M., Ita Ford, M.M., and Ms. Jean Donovan were murdered in 1980. This file contains information on the 1980 event and the Ferdinand sisters' support of the communities involved and their work in El Salvador.