Tag: Sister Dorothy Stang

While the Latin word "megascops" denoted the bird's species, the word "stangiae" was inspired by the name of Sister Dorothy Stang, a US-born Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, who was killed on 12 February, 2005, by gunmen hired to assassinate the 73-year-old nun religious for her work protecting the Amazon forest and the people living there.

A cross containing dirt stained with the blood of Sister Dorothy Stang, a US member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur shot down in the Amazon 20 years ago, and one of her sweaters were placed 10 January on the altar of the "new martyrs of the Americas" in Rome's Basilica of St Bartholomew.