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Flavien Laplante (Doria Laplante)
Canadian Holy Cross brother who worked with fishing families in Bangladesh
Servant of GodFull write-upCanada
Born
27 July 1907
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Died
19 June 1981
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Beatified
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not yet
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
A Quebec-born brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross who taught in Montreal, went to the missions in 1932 and spent the rest of his life among the fishing communities of what is now Bangladesh, dying at Diang in 1981.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The diocesan inquiry opened in the diocese of Chittagong on 13 February 2009.
The cause
Flavien Laplante (Doria Laplante) is named a Servant of God; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: The cause of Flavien Laplante (Doria Laplante).
Sources
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