Sr. Dorothy Stang Catholic Heroes would have been presented to

would have been presented to God in the Temple

As it is an icon and a vehicle for prayer and not merely a portrait

mentored and guided her with his own passion for Christ and thirst for justice and equality by the light of the Gospels

a difficult endeavor since at the time France had a government that was militantly anti-Catholic and anti-clerical

Monsignor John Egan

Sr. Dorothy Stang Catholic Heroes would have been presented toSr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdN 1931 2005 Dorothy Stang was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1931. While still a teen, she entered the congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, an order of religious founded by Saint Julie Billiart to minister exclusively to the poor girls of peasant and farmer families. After professing final vows in 1956, Dorothy was assigned as a teacher for fifteen years in the Chicago area, first at St. Victor in Calumet City, an area