María Julia Hernández [SEP] cause of death
of the 75,000 victims of the violence were peasants who were killed while passively resisting the powers of the state.
In 1991 Hernández was awarded the Pacem in Terris Award. It was named after a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations ("Pacem in terris" is Latin for 'Peace on Earth'.)
María Julia Hernández died on March 30, 2007 of a heart attack in San Salvador at the age of 68.
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the army to stop the death squads who were attacking real and imagined opponents of the status quo.
The killing of the archbishop was among the opening shots of the civil war that lasted until 1992. It was a central event in the life of María Julia Hernández. Hernández worked with Romero, who was installed as bishop in 1977, at the start of a 15-year wave of violence that pitted a relative handful of left-wing guerillas against the ruling class, the armed forces and the government of El Salvador. Most