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He was held for 564 days before being released and allowed to return to the United States. He died in Illinois, of cancer, in 1996. He is buried in The Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.
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He also discusses how his faith sustained him. He spent much of his time in prayer and meditation, making a rosary out of threads from a sack, and celebrated clandestine Masses whenever he could.
At times he was imprisoned with other hostages (see: Terry Anderson and Benjamin Weir ) who worshiped together as "The Church of the Locked Door". He spent much of his time chained and blindfolded, and was allowed to use the toilet only once a day.
French Jenco suffered serious eye infections and other health problems as a result of his captivity.
In changing from one hiding place to another, he was bound with tape and placed in stifling hiding places in trucks, lest he be found by soldiers or police inspecting a vehicle. He also suffered beatings by the guards. After his death, federal judge Royce C. Lamberth awarded the estate and family of Review
Lawrence Jenco $314.6 million in damages from Iran for the 18 months he was held hostage in Lebanon in the mid-1980s.
Jenco "was treated little better than a caged animal" said Lamberth in his ruling, which laid the blame upon the Iranian government. The Iranian government defaulted on the lawsuit, declining to answer any of the allegations.
Victims of foreign terrorism are allowed by law to collect court judgments from the United States. government. Toward the end of his captivity, Jenco was asked by one of his guards if he forgave his captors.
French Jenco tells in his book that at that moment he realised that he was being called to forgive, to "let go of revenge, retaliation and vindictiveness".
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