French missionary s legacy lives on among Kolkata s poor
Father François Laborde dedicated his life to disadvantaged slum dwellers
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When Father François Laborde died at the age of 93 in India s Kolkata s city on Christmas Day, many close to him recalled his often-repeated words that the Indian poor evangelized him to be a better Christian.
After his arrival in India in 1965, the priest of the Prado Institute dedicated his life to the poorest, the outcasts, and the handicapped youth of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), the capital of West Bengal state in eastern India. I had gone to India to evangelize the poor, but it was they who evangelized me, he used to tell his confreres and friends.