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Sr. Dorothy Stang, martyred American nun, remembered at Amazon synod

Stang's criticisms of illegal logging and her dogged defense of poor farmers in Brazil led the people to call her "the steel flower" and "the angel of the Amazon." But  ranchers called the sister of the Notre Dame de Namur a devil and a foreign spy, putting a $17,500 price on her head.

 

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