Elisabeth Elliot
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Elisabeth Elliot (née
Howard; December 21, 1926 – June 15, 2015) was a Christian missionary, author, and speaker. Her first husband,
Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca people (now known as
Huaorani; also rendered as Waorani or Waodani) of eastern
Ecuador. She later spent two years as a missionary to the tribe members who killed her husband. After living in South America for many years, she returned to the United States, wrote over twenty books, and became widely known as an author and a speaker. Elliot toured the country well into her seventies, sharing her knowledge and talking about her experience.
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