Dorothy Hennessey

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Dorothy Marie Robert Hennessey OSF (born March 24, 1913 in Manchester , Iowa , † January 24, 2008 in Dubuque , Iowa) was a Roman Catholic religious and peace activist .

Dorothy Hennessey was born in Manchester, Iowa, the oldest of thirteen siblings. She entered the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters at St. Francis on January 25, 1932 she made her perpetual profession on August 12, 1937. She was a teacher in Templeton, Remsen, Worthington, Holy Cross, Dubuque (Immaculate Conception Academy) and Waterloo (Columbus High School) as well as in Portland (Oregon) .

She came through her brother Ron, a missionary in Latin America from 1964 until his death in 1999, to the peace movement and the School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) founded by Roy Bourgeois . She campaigned against the US Cold War in the 1970s and took part in peace marches. She was known, along with her sister Gwen, as a constant protestor in front of Fort Benning , a training camp for Latin American soldiers of the United States Army southwest of Columbus , Georgia . Both were imprisoned for six months in 2001 for their protests, when Sister Dorothy was 88 years old. In 2002 Dorothy and Gwen Hennessey received the Pacem in Terris Award .

She died in January 2008 at the age of 94 in the Franciscan Convent in Dubuque, Iowa.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Sister Dorothy Marie Hennessey, peace activist, dies. Archdiocese of Baltimore , January 19, 2012, accessed December 3, 2018.
  2. ↑ Aachen Peace Prize 2005 goes to Roy Bourgeois and Hanne Hiob , Uni Kassel, 2005
  3. ^ Trespassing Nuns Hold Their Convictions Dear ( Memento of May 2, 2008 on the Internet Archive ), Baltimore Sun, September 9, 2001

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SURNAME Hennessey, Dorothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hennessey, Dorothy Marie Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Franciscan
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2008
Place of death Dubuque , Iowa