Everything about Dorothy Kazel totally explained
Dorothy Kazel (
June 30,
1939–
December 2,
1980) was an
American Ursuline nun and
missionary to
El Salvador. On December 2, 1980, she and fellow missionaries
Ita Ford,
Jean Donovan and
Maura Clarke were raped and murdered by members of the
military of El Salvador.
Life and work
Kazel was born
Dorthea Lu Kazel to
Lithuanian American parents, Joseph and Malvina Kazel, in
Cleveland, Ohio. When she joined the Ursulines, a
Roman Catholic religious order. In 1960, she took the name
Sister Laurentine, in honor of an Ursuline martyred during the
French Revolution.
As the
Roman Catholic Church modernized during the 1960s, she became known as
Sister Dorothy. In the
Central American community where she died, she was known as
Madre Dorthea (Dorothy).
She completed her bachelor's degree and novitiate between 1960 and 1965. Beginning in 1965, Kazel taught for seven years in Cleveland, and did missionary work among the
Papago Tribe of
Arizona.
The five members of the National Guard, out of uniform, stopped the vehicle they were driving after they left the airport in
San Salvador. Kazel and the three other women were taken to a relatively isolated spot where they were beaten, raped, and murdered by the soldiers. This documentary won the Interfilm Award at the 1982
International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.
Pamela Bellwood played Kazel in the 1983
television movie Choices of the Heart, which was criticized for lacking clarity about the political context of the women's killings. The movie won the 1984
Humanitas Prize in the 90-minute category.
Melissa Gilbert,
Helen Hunt,
Martin Sheen, and
Mike Farrell co-starred.
Book
Several books have been written about the four women who were martyred that day, and Kazel is mentioned in all of them. However, one specifically about Kazel was authored by Sister Cynthia Glavac:
In the Fullness of Life: A Biography of Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U. (1996, Dimension Books).
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