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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.

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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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