Flavian LaPlante

Life

Flavian Laplante (1907–1981) was a religious brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a missionary who worked in Bangladesh from 1932 until 1981. He was a teacher and then a headmaster in different Catholic schools in the districts of Barisal, Noakhali and Chittagong. Later he was involved with the socio-economic development of the Jolodash community. He founded Miriam Ashram at Diang, on the 1 Karnaphuly River. In 1978, he also built a grotto with the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes and turned it into a shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes.

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