For #InternationalWomensDay learn about 150 great women of the Beatitudes in “Blessed Among All Women: Women Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time”—including: Mother Maria Skobtsova, Fannie Lou Hamer, Etty Hillesum...
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Simone Weil, Madeleine Delbrêl, Sr Thea Bowman, Sophie Scholl...
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Dorothy Day, Jean Donovan, Maura O’Halloran, Peace Pilgrim... and of course Sts Clare, Mary Magdalen, Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Joan of Arc, Bernadette, Edith Stein, Teresa of Calcutta, Catherine of Siena....

Mar 8, 2020 · 2:02 PM UTC

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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
In the summer of 1980, I studied in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, just after Oscar Romero was killed in El S. Jean Donovan was in the same school as I. When she went on to El S, dying so tragically that Dec., I wept. She was a woman of such character and truly lived Christ.
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Very bad times in Central America then.
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