Maryknoll to Present Drama About Slain Churchwomen

Maryknoll magazine, celebrating 100 years of publication, will wind up a year of commemorative events on Sunday, Dec. 2, at 1:30 p.m. with a presentation of the liturgical drama “Certain Women” at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, N.Y. The play is based on the lives and deaths of the four U.S. churchwomen who were martyred in El Salvador 27 years ago.

On Dec. 2, 1980, Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missioner Jean Donovan were raped, murdered and buried in a shallow grave in El Salvador.

The play will be performed by “Women of the Well,” a six-member troupe from Rochester, N.Y.

Admission is free.