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Bishop Oswaldo Escobar Aguilar of Chalatenango, El Salvador, speaks of the work of U.S. Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke, Ita Ford and Carla Piette Jan. 11, 2020, at one of the local cemeteries. Ford and Clarke, who served in Chalatenango and were raped and murdered by Salvadoran military forces along with Ursuline Sr. Dorothy Kazel and lay missionary Jean Donovan in 1980, are remembered each Dec. 2, the day of their deaths, in the diocese as part of a long list of local martyrs. (CNS/Rhina Guidos)