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Elisabeth Elliot enters gates of splendor
Elisabeth Elliot, the best-selling Christian author and widow of martyred missionary Jim Elliot, died Monday morning. She was 88.
Elliot’s daughter, Valerie Elliot Shepard, said her mother was asleep when she died in the Gloucester, Mass., home Elliot shared with her third husband, Lars Gren. Elliot had suffered from dementia for about a decade, and recently experienced a series of ministrokes.
Elliot became well-known after publishing, in 1957, Through Gates of Splendor, about her husband Jim Elliot’s attempt to take the gospel to an unreached tribe of Auca Indians (now known as the Waodani or Huaorani) in the jungles of Ecuador. Another of Elliot’s popular works, Passion and Purity, described her five-year courtship with Jim.
In 1956, Auca tribe members speared to death Jim, Nate Saint, Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, and Roger Youderian on a riverbank two days after the men made an initial friendly contact. The Elliots had celebrated their two-year anniversary just three months before. Valerie was 10 months old.
Not to be deterred from the mission she had joined her husband to fulfill, Elliot continued working to reach Ecuadorian tribes, eventually moving with her 3-year-old daughter and Nate Saint’s sister to live among
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Jim Elliot Collection
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Collection
Identifier: CN 277
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, tapes of sermons and audio letters, journals, notebooks, annotated Bibles, school records, poems, clippings, drawings, and other materials describing Elliot's courtship of his wife Elisabeth, his spiritual preparation for the mission field, early days of his work in Ecuador, and events leading up to his death and those of four other missionaries at the hands of the Waorani (called "Auca" by their enemies) people. Microfilm edition of materials available for researcher use.
Dates
- Created: 1941-1959
- Majority of material found within 1947-1956
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Due to the fragile condition of the journals of Jim Elliot (held in Box 1) the following restrictions on use and access are in place:
(1). Request for brief access to the original journals will be granted under the following conditions: