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A Pilgrimage Through the South: What the Martyrs Taught Me

A Pilgrimage Through the South: What the Martyrs Taught Me

by Ángel Flores, SJ | Apr 27, 2020 | Faith & Politics, Justice, Race    ~ Approx. 9 mins

Haga clic aquí para español. I still remember the day I got my first Bible. One night, my mother, a Black Puerto Rican woman, gathered me and my older brother in one of the bedrooms of our home in Cañaboncito. “I have something to show you,” she said, with a serious...

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