Paper and cloth flowers adorn a set of tombs of U.S. Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford in January 2020 in El Salvador. Sisters Ford and Clarke were raped and murdered by Salvadoran military forces along with Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missionary Jean Donovan in 1980. CNS photo/Rhina Guidos
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BRAINTREE On Dec. 2, the Maryknoll Sisters hosted a webinar to honor the lives and deaths of four American missionaries who were killed on that day 40 years earlier in El Salvador: Sister Ita Ford, MM, Sister Maura Clarke, MM, Sister Dorothy Kazel, OSU, and lay missionary Jean Donovan.
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