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2 unusual facts about Eileen Egan


Eileen Egan

She marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. at Selma, Alabama, had a major, behind-the-scenes hand in framing the "peace" statements of Vatican II, and promoted the work of Jean and Hildegard Goss-Mayr, crucial to the peaceful ouster of Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines.

In 1992, at the age of 79, Egan was mugged on the way to Mass and had to go to a New York hospital with a broken hip and several fractured ribs.



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