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Ramon Echevarria
John and Mark Bieter
Boise, Idaho
20 March 1993
 

Ordination portrait (Boise, Idaho 1958).  Copyright Echevarria collection.

Ramon was born in Boise, Idaho in 1932 to Julio Echevarria and Antonia Arego.  The oldest of three children, Ramon grew up in Boise, a thread of the city's closely-knit Basque community.

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Drawing upon a lifetime of study and his firsthand experience as a priest, Ramon discusses the intimate relationship of Basques to the Catholic church.  Looking back on centuries of history, he points to events and characteristics of Basques that help explain the ways in which Basques are both devoted to and conflicted about the Church.

Ramon Echevarria Read the interview summary

The effects of immigration (4:36)

Moving away and coming back (2:22)
                                                     

With his brother, Jim
 

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