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Jean Donovan (April 10, 1953 – December 2, 1980) was an American lay missionary who was raped and murdered along with three Religious Sisters in El Salvador by a military death squad while volunteering to do charity work during the civil war there. ==Early Life== Jean Donovan was born to Patricia and Raymond Donovan, who raised her in an upper middle-class home in Westport, Connecticut. She had an older brother, Michael.〔(Martyrs of Central America & Colombia ) published by the Inter-Religious Task Forhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violationsce of Cleveland; accessed online December 9, 2006.〕 She attended Mary Washington College in Virginia (now the University of Mary Washington),〔 and spent a year as an exchange student in Ireland at University College Cork, deepening her Roman Catholic faith through her contact with a priest there who had been a missionary in Peru.〔 Upon the completion of her master's degree in business from Case Western Reserve University,〔 she accepted a position as a management consultant for the Cleveland branch of the nationwide accounting firm, Arthur Andersen.〔( The Life and Example of Jean Donovan ) by Rev. John Dear, December 2, 2005; accessed online December 9, 2006.〕 Donovan was engaged to a young physician, Douglas Cable, and felt a strong call to motherhood as well as her call to do mission work: "...I sit there and talk to God and say 'Why are you doing this to me? Why can't I just be your little suburban housewife?' 〔 While volunteering in the Cleveland Diocese Youth Ministry with the poor, she decided to join the Diocesan Mission Project in El Salvador. She was accepted into and completed the lay-missionary training course at Maryknoll in New York State. Donovan traveled to El Salvador in July 1977, where she worked as a lay missioner in La Libertad, along with Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline nun. The pair worked in the parish of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in La Libertad, providing help to refugees of the Salvadoran Civil War and the poor. They provided shelter, food, transportation to medical care, and they buried the bodies of the dead left behind by the death squads.〔 Donovan was a follower of Archbishop Óscar Romero, and often went to his cathedral, the Catedral Metropolitana de San Salvador, to hear him preach. After his assassination on March 24, 1980, about eight months before their own murders, she and Sister Dorothy Kazel stood beside his coffin during the night-long vigil of his wake.〔〔 In the weeks before she died, Donovan wrote a friend:〔〔( Advent Reflections on the El Salvador Murders ) accessed online December 9, 2006.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Donovan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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