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Fr Laborde: Inspiration behind “City of Joy” dies

2020-12-29
By: Matters India
On: December 29, 2020
In: National

By Matters India Reporter Kolkata: Father Francois Laborde, a French Jesuit who spent decades among the poor of Kolkata, was buried on December 28 in a parish in the capital city of West Bengal. Father Laborde was considered the inspiration behind French author Dominique Lapierre’s “City of Joy,” a novelContinue Reading

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