Work that honors the memory of those priests, nuns and religious men killed for their militant activity, whose interpretation of the gospel led them to support revolutionary processes, to participate in political organizations, and even to take part in the armed struggle, prioritizing the defense of the land and the peasantry.

The embroideries show Camilo Torres, a Colombian priest and precursor of liberation theology who considered it crucial to defend the peasantry and was part of the Rural Action Unit of Yopal, later joining the ELN (Colombian National Liberation Army) guerrilla group, who was killed by the Colombian army in 1966. Josimo Morais, an Afro-Brazilian priest who was killed by ranchers in 1986 for his support of rural workers and his political role in the Pastoral Land Commission, an organisation that is still part of the long history of rural resistance and the fight for revolutionary agrarian reform in Brazil, the same territory where Dorothy Stang, an American nun, was killed in 2005 for defending the Amazon rainforest and rural workers. The embroidery also shows a portrait of Alice Domon, a French nun who was part of the emerging Agrarian Leagues in Argentina and worked alongside tobacco producers but was murdered by the civil-military dictatorship in 1977, and finally Thomas Müntzer, a German priest murdered for his role during the peasant uprising in Germany in 1524, and whose interpretation of the Bible and Christian spirituality led him to defend the premise of “Omnia sunt communia”, “everything belongs to everyone”, a premise that has been adopted by many priests, nuns and preachers who have lived through repression and whose lives have been cut short for having a revolutionary Christian militancy in defense of rural workers and the land.

2023 - Textile and embroidery in wool 60 cm x 800 cm