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Martyr of the Amazon : the life of Sister Dorothy Stang / Roseanne Murphy.
LIBRA BX4705.S7938 M87 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Roseanne, 1932-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stang, Dorothy (Dorothy Mae), -2005.
- Stang, Dorothy.
- Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur--United States--Biography.
- Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
- Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur--Brazil--Biography.
- Brazil.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- The murder in 2005 of an American nun, Sister Dorothy Stang, focused the world's attention on the plight of poor farmers in the Brazilian Amazon and their struggles against rapacious developers. From a conventional nun in the pre-Vatican II era, she had developed a keen social conscience and, increasingly, a deep, mystical commitment to the integrity of Creation. These ideals combined in her advoacy for the rights of the poor and her defense of the imperiled rain forest.
- Contents:
- Called to mission
- Arizona interlude
- Brazil beginnings
- Blessed are the poor
- Deeper into the forest
- On the transamazon
- Hunger for justice
- Love of creation
- Blessed are the persecuted
- Unless a seed die
- A seed planted.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168).
- ISBN:
- 9781570757358
- 1570757356
- OCLC:
- 85484936
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