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Maria Julia Hernandez -LRB- January 30 , 1939 -- March 30 , 2007 -RRB- was a prominent human rights advocate who tried to speak for victims of the civil war in El Salvador .. El Salvador. El Salvador. She was the founding director of Tutela Legal , the human rights office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador .. Tutela Legal. Tutela Legal. Roman Catholic. Roman Catholic. Archdiocese of San Salvador. Archdiocese of San Salvador. San Salvador. San Salvador. Hernandez was born in San Francisco Morazan , Honduras , to Salvadoran parents .. San Francisco Morazan. San Francisco Morazan. Honduras. Honduras. Her family returned to El Salvador shortly after her birth .. El Salvador. El Salvador. She never married but dedicated her life to the Catholic Church and its work among the people of El Salvador .. El Salvador. El Salvador. Catholic Church. Catholic Church. She spent 30 years gathering evidence of massacres and individual killings , interviewing survivors , seeing that they stayed alive and compiling a book of the dead .. The book of the dead grew into more of an encyclopedia of political violence .. Hernandez did her work in a sparsely furnished room decorated by a cross and two photographs of Archbishop Oscar Romero , the church leader who was assassinated in 1980 by right-wing forces in El Salvador .. El Salvador. El Salvador. Archbishop. Archbishop. Oscar Romero. Oscar Romero. Romero was killed while celebrating Mass , after calling upon the army to stop the death squads who were attacking real and imagined opponents of the status quo .. The killing of the archbishop was among the opening shots of the civil war that lasted until 1992 .. It was a central event in the life of Maria Julia Hernandez .. Hernandez worked with Romero , who was installed as bishop in 1977 , at the start of a 15-year wave of violence that pitted a relative handful of left-wing guerillas against the ruling class , the armed forces and the government of El Salvador .. El Salvador. El Salvador. Most of the 75,000 victims of the violence were peasants who were killed while passively resisting the powers of the state .. In 1991 Hernandez was awarded the Pacem in Terris Award .. Pacem in Terris Award. Pacem in Terris Award. It was named after a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations -LRB- Pacem in terris is Latin for ` Peace on Earth ' . -RRB-. encyclical. encyclical. Pope John XXIII. Pope John XXIII. Pacem in terris. Pacem in terris. Latin. Latin. Maria Julia Hernandez died on March 30 , 2007 of a heart attack in San Salvador at the age of 68 .. San Salvador. San Salvador