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His words were swords that sliced the night. No longer young but grey-haired and erect, He was a match for storms and destined death. Workers crowded to his Sunday cathedral Mass — Office clerks, sweet-sellers, fruit-sellers, Hucksters and charwomen, mothers with baskets At their feet and a baby snuggled at a breast. Stately with a staff, he moved among them: The poor people’s bishop in the crowd.
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© 1990 Dermot Keogh
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Vallecillos, I.L. (1990). Elegy for the Murdered Bishop. In: Keogh, D. (eds) Church and Politics in Latin America. Latin American Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09661-9_13
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