Members of the Congregational Leadership Team of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, based in Rome, participated in a prayer service honoring Sister Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN, who was murdered in Brazil in 2005 in the midst of her ministry to the people of Brazil and the Amazon. Sister Dorothy’s relics, a cross containing her blood and one of her sweaters were placed on the altar of the ” new martyrs of the Americas” at the Basilica of Saint Bartholomew in Rome on January 10th. Sister Kathleen Harmon, SNDdeN, Provincial of the SNDdeN Ohio Province, presented the Cross at the ceremony.
