Jean Donovan was the youngest (27) and the only laywoman among the 4 N American churchwomen raped and murdered by Salvadoran military on Dec 2 1980. She had been drawn to the mission in El Salvador and stayed on even when the risks became clear. Just before her death she wrote:
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“Several times I decided to leave—I almost could except for the children, the poor bruised victims of adult lunacy. Who would care for them? Whose heart would be so staunch as to favor the reasonable thing in a sea of their tears and loneliness? Not mine, dear friend, not mine.”
These words of Jean come to me often... All of those women, what they endured. And the people of El Salvador, who continue to suffer in so many ways.
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