El Salvador

 
 


Gate -Travel



 
 

Visit to Madre Del Salvador School in Santa Ana





































Hogar Santa Maria Goretti, boarding school, Santa Ana

































Co Madres - Women who helped each other through the war and support one another today. 















Divinia Providencia Chapel where Archbishop Oscar Romero was

shot on March 24, 1980.


































The small house built for Oscar Romero.  His artifacts and personal belongings are now on display inside.


























































Mass in the Cathedral Crypt.  This is the burial site of Archbishop Oscar Romero


















































Water project  - bringing clean water to 300 families.  If you wish to help complete the project send your donations to GATE (Global Awareness Through Experiences -912 Market Street, La Crosse, WI 54601.  There are no administration costs.  The entire donation goes to the people.  Or go to www.GATE-Travel.or



































In order to feed their families the women are baking bread and selling it to the villagers.  This project needs another mixers and a building to work out of.
































The Memorial Wall listing all the Salvadorians who died .




























Jesuit University - UCA  This is the place where 6 Jesuits were killed , the housekeeper and her daughter.  Among them was Fr. Ellacuria the president of the university.  The bodies are buried inside the chapel on the grounds of the university.  The stations of the cross were drawn by a local artist depicting the tortures of the people.


















































This is the  Jesuit resident where they were dragged out and shot in the middle of the night.  Fr. Rutilio Grande the first Jesuit to be killed is  also remembered in the museumas well as the six Jesuits, the cook Julia Ramos and her 15 year old daughter Cecilia.




































Dr. Virginia Rodriquez, Surgeon and researcher tours us through Hospital Rosales.
















San Francisco Nonulco area, site where the 4 churchwomen were killed. Sisters Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel,  Maura Klarke, and Lay Missionary Jean Donovan.