Maura_Clarke

Maura Clarke

Maura Clarke

American Catholic Maryknoll sister

Maura Clarke, MM (January 13, 1931 – December 2, 1980), was an American Catholic Maryknoll sister who served as a missionary in Nicaragua and El Salvador. She worked with the poor and refugees in Central America from 1959 until her murder in 1980. On December 2, 1980, she was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries — Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan — by members of the military of El Salvador.

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Murder

Main article: 1980 murders of U.S. missionaries in El Salvador

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References

    Further reading

    • A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sr. Maura, Eileen Markey, NationBooks 2016.
    • Hearts on Fire: The Story of the Maryknoll Sisters, Penny Lernoux, et al., Orbis Books, 1995.
    • Ita Ford: Missionary Martyr, Phyllis Zagano, Paulist Press, 1996.
    • The Same Fate As the Poor, Judith M. Noone, Orbis Books, 1995. ISBN 1-57075-031-9
    • Witness of Hope: The Persecution of Christians in Latin America, Martin Lange and Reinhold Iblacker, Orbis Books, 1981.


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