Bag from Guatemala
When I was at the SOAWatch at Fort Benning to Close the School of Americas last weekend I came across a person selling craft items made by women of a village in northwestern Guatemala. As I was talking with this person with an organization named SEPA it became clear that this was a village where my friend Lorenzo Rosebaugh OMI had served as a parish priest in his first assignment in Guatemala. It also was near the scene of where Lorenzo was killed last spring.
The people in the village believe Lorenzo was a martyr although it seems that he was killed in a senseless act of violence, something that is, unfortunately, all too common in this country of peaceful persons.
I needed a bag to replace the one I had purchased in my journey to Guatemala a number of years ago (See Buried in Guatemala) and the temporary one I was using from the Pilgrimage to India. I found it and found that the persons of the village had erected a small monument to commemorate the life of Lorenzo.
Right before I had left for the SOAWatch event one of Lorenzo’s dearest friends had sent me three English Translations to Accounts Written and Broadcast in Guatemala on Lorenzo’s Death. Tonight I just got around to putting these accounts on the Memorial to Lorenzo Rosebaugh web page.
Within the last week I have also received some written journals of another friend, and member with Lorenzo and me, of the Milwaukee 14 who has died in the last year, Jim Harney. They are wonderful reflections on life that I will share with readers of this web site.
These two friends from 1968 whom I just got to know again in the years before they died both served the poor, marginalized, the undocumented of Latin America. They both have died but their lives live on in their work, pictures, writings and actions. Presente Lorenzo, Presente Jim.
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