Marino Rigon
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Marino Rigon
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Marino Rigon was an Italian-Bangladeshi Xaverian missionary priest popularly known as the "friend of Bengalis". Rigon was born in Villaverla, Vicenza, Italy in 1925. In 1953 he moved to the East Bengal province of Pakistan and during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, where he gave shelter and cared for the injured. He lived in Bangladesh as a missionary for sixty years preaching the Gospel among Catholics using the local language (Bengali) and making a tremendous contribution to the Catholic C
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