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James Ryan was ordained in the Franciscan Order at Teutopolis, Ill., in 1938, and in 1943 answered a Franciscan call for volunteers to go to Brazil. He spent his first nine Brazilian years ministering to the rubber tappers at Fordlândia, the vast plantation founded by the Ford Motor Co. and taken over in 1945 by the Brazilian government. He mediated between the workers and the plantation management, shared his medical supplies with the hospital and his canned beans with the hungry. He was then instructed to establish a new parish, centered on Santarém, which with...
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