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Ma. Violeta Marcos (July 18, 1937 - April 30, 2001) was a Filipino nun who was the co-foundress and first superior general of the Augustinian Missionaries of the Philippines (AMP). She is also known for her social action during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, when she joined the Task Force Detainees (TFD), an organization put up by the Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines which worked for the defense and release of political detainees. She helped TFD to document cases of arbitrary detention and execution of workers and Church lay leaders, and joined human rights workers in searching for the missing and helping the victims of military abuses. In recognition of his efforts against authoritarian rule, his name was inscribed on the Wall of Remembrance at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani in 2014.