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Patria Mercedes Mirabal Reyes (27 February 1924 – 25 November 1960), commonly known as Patria was the oldest of the four Mirabal sisters. When she was 14, she was sent by her parents to a Catholic boarding school , Colegio Inmaculada Concepción in La Vega.
María Teresa was the youngest of four sisters born into a wealthy family in the Dominican province of Salcedo (now, after a name change, it is called Hermanas Mirabal, or in English, Mirabal Sisters). Her parents were Enrique Mirabal Fernández and Mercedes Reyes Camilo. [1] Like her sisters before her, she attended Colegio Inmaculada ...
María Minerva Mirabal Reyes (March 12, 1926 - November 25, 1960), or Minerva, was a Dominican political activist and revolutionary. She was the third of the Mirabal sisters, [1] Minerva and her sisters began to speak out against the oppressive dictatorship of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and conducted clandestine activities against his regime.
The Mirabal Sisters. Patria, Minerva, María Teresa, were three Dominican sisters who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were actively against his regime. Their sister, Dedé Mirabal ...
Located at St. John's Methodist Church, "¡Time for Affirmative Consent!" combines the story of the Mirabal Sisters, in whose name the day honors, with performance and a silent auction. The ...
The Mirabal sisters are Dominican revolutionaries and the subject of the Sisters of the Underground, a new podcast produced by Eva Longoria. Here's what to know. Eva Longoria and Dania Ramirez ...
In the Time of the Butterflies is a historical fiction [1] novel by Julia Alvarez, relating a fictionalized account of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. The book is written in the first and third person, by and about the Mirabal sisters.
Salcedo is the capital city of the Hermanas Mirabal Province in the Dominican Republic. It is the birthplace of the Dominican heroines, the Mirabal sisters, who died in the struggle against the dictator Rafael Trujillo. A museum in the town commemorates three of sisters; it was tended to by the remaining sister, Bélgica (Dedé) Mirabal, until ...