Iglesia de la Santa Cruz
The Passionist church in San Cristóbal, a congregation of Irish origin, and the site of the December 1977 abductions of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo founders and two French nuns.
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- Where
- Buenos Aires
Status
Status: Needs checkingLast evidence: Described as a working church and school on Wikipedia; no dated primary evidence found, 11 October 2026
The Santa Cruz church in San Cristóbal is the base of the Passionist congregation, which is of Irish origin. Families of the disappeared began meeting there in June 1977, and on 8 December 1977 Mary Ponce de Bianco, Esther Ballestrino de Careaga and Alice Domon were among those abducted as they left the church. The Argentine Foreign Ministry's 2017 exhibition catalogue includes a photograph of the first Santa Cruz chapel, the old tin chapel of 1883. Wikipedia adds that the church was built between 1881 and 1894 to a design by Edwin Merry, is a national historic monument and runs a school founded by Irish Passionists; those details need a second source.
Sources
- Source: Buenos Aires Herald, The nun who wanted to change the world (8 Dec 2024), 8 December 2024(opens in a new tab)
- Source: Cancillería Argentina, 100 años de amistad Argentina-Irlanda, exhibition catalogue (2017), 2017(opens in a new tab)
- Source: Wikipedia (es), Iglesia de la Santa Cruz (Buenos Aires) (leads only; verify), 11 October 2026(opens in a new tab)