Letters from Zapallal

Brother Paul

Posted on 6 Apr 2019 by Delia Online Team

It is with distressing news we report the sudden death of Brother Paul McAuley.

Over 25 years ago Delia, and her husband Michael, were invited by their friend Brother Paul to visit Peru. It was certainly not a sight-seeing trip. It was to a desert community some 40 miles from Lima, where several hundred families had fled the terrorism and despair of the city and settled in mud huts and tents. Zapallal it was called, and it may have offered relative safety but nothing else. No rain had fallen for years. There were no basic facilities of any description. No medicines, no schooling,...

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