Body of Father Marino Rigon reaches Mongla

Secretariat Correspondent: The mortal remains of Bangladesh's friend and freedom fighter, Italian citizen Father Marino Rigon, has reached Mongla upazila in Bagerhat district.

As per his last wish, he will be buried at the Saint Paul’s Churchin in Mongla upazila the afternoon.



On October 20, 2017, Father Rigon, who was given honorary citizenship in 2009 and honored with ‘Friends of Liberation War Honour’, breathed his last while undergoing treatment in Italy's Vicenza.

Father Rigon was born on February 5, 1925 at Villaverla in Italy. He came to then East Pakistan in 1953. After his extensive visits to Bangladesh villages, he established a church and a school Shelabunia village of Mongla and started living there permanently.



He took part in the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 by sheltering and taking care of injured freedom fighters.


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