Word: dunstan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rounded up eight white priests and nuns and murdered seven of them in a nearby ditch with two automatic rifles and a light machine gun. The eighth missionary survived by allowing his body to fall alongside those of his dead and dying friends. "It was." said soft-spoken Father Dunstan Myerscough, 65. "a senseless, insane, brutal killing...
...DUNSTAN L. HAETTENSCHWILLER...
There should be no dismay, therefore, when Davies introduces as his hero an elderly hagiographer who has spent most of his life as a master at a Canadian boys' school. Dunstan Ramsay is a solitary man but not a recluse, one of those singlehanded voyagers who is happy enough to socialize in port, but who never spends much time there. The seas he is driven to cross are strange and not much traveled; his lifelong obsession is to comprehend the condition of sainthood...