{"exhibit":{"title":"The Ellacur\u00eda Tapes: A Martyr at Loyola","description":"<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In May 1986, Loyola University Chicago awarded Ignacio Ellacur&iacute;a, S.J., rector of the University of Central America in San Salvador and a well-known liberation theologian, an honorary doctorate.&nbsp; Three years later, he was one of the six Jesuits, along with their housekeeper and her daughter, brutally murdered in their shared home on the university&rsquo;s campus.&nbsp; The tragedy of the Salvadoran Martyrs became an impetus for worldwide activism and solidarity with the peoples of El Salvador and a call for a broader movement to end U.S. aid to El Salvador.&nbsp; This movement was alive and well at Loyola.<\/span>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This exhibit reveals the ways in which faculty, staff, and students at Loyola responded to the conflict in El Salvador and the murder of Fr. Ellacur&iacute;a and his fellow priests.&nbsp; Using archival footage of Ellacur&iacute;a's visit to Loyola, as well as images and documents from a variety of sources, this exhibit shows how Loyola played a central role in the solidarity movement in the 1980s and early 1990s.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/div>","credits":"","featured":0,"public":1,"theme":"santa-fe","theme_options":"a:1:{s:8:\"santa-fe\";a:4:{s:4:\"logo\";s:36:\"8b5057cb50fd79212e1903504d29f483.jpg\";s:11:\"footer_text\";s:0:\"\";s:24:\"display_footer_copyright\";s:1:\"0\";s:19:\"use_advanced_search\";s:1:\"0\";}}","slug":"ellacuria-tapes","added":"2014-09-01 14:08:20","modified":"2023-09-07 17:15:11","owner_id":18,"use_summary_page":1,"cover_image_file_id":null,"id":18},"item":{"item_type_id":6,"collection_id":21,"featured":0,"public":1,"added":"2014-10-13 09:01:14","modified":"2023-09-07 17:15:08","owner_id":19,"id":1329}}