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| name = Lucas Marandi<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|08|04|df=y}}<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1971|04|21|1922|08|04|df=y}}<br />
| religion = [[Christianity]]<br />
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'''Lucas Marandi''' (4 August 1922 – 21 April 1971) was a Bangladeshi [[Christians|Christian]] priest. He is considered a martyr in [[Bangladesh]]. He was the first native [[bishop]] of Dinajpur region.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Marandi was born on 4 April 1922 at Beneedwar in a [[Santal]]i [[Dinajpur District, Bangladesh|Dinajpur]] to Mathius Marandi and Maria Kisku.<ref name=a/> He was converted to the [[Christianity]] as per rule of theology after nine days of his birth.{{Citation needed|date= May 2022}}<br />
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Marandi received his primary education from Beniduar Mission Primary School.<ref name=a/> He was admitted into Dinajpur Santal Middle School (now St. Philip's Boarding School) in 1934. Later, he was sent to [[Italy]] to study divine perfection and attributes.<ref name=a/> After completing studies from there he came back to his country.{{Citation needed|date= May 2022}}<br />
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Marandi was appointed as a [[bishop]] at the cathedral of Dinajpur on 1 December 1955.<ref name=a/> He also worked as a religious teacher and was appointed as the leader of his community. At first he was sent to work in Mariampur Mission in [[Ghoraghat Upazila|Ghoraghat]] of Dinajpur.<ref name=a/> Later, he was sent to work at St. Philip's Boarding.<br />
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Marandi took interim responsibility of Dinajpur religion state in 1965 but due to the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|Indo-Pak War]] he faced some difficulties in conducting missionary work in that place.<ref name=a/> He was then appointed a temporary bishop at Ruhea in [[Thakurgaon district|Thakurgaon]].{{Citation needed|date= May 2022}}<br />
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Besides missionary work Marandi worked to build up leadership to develop agriculture.<ref name=a/> He introduced a boarding school at Ruhea in Thakurgaon.{{Citation needed|date= May 2022}}<br />
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After the beginning of the [[Liberation War of Bangladesh]] the refugees took shelter at Ruhea Missionary.<ref name=a/> Marandi provided food and shelter of these people. He motivated the young people to join the Liberation War of Bangladesh.<ref name=a/> He also provided treatment and medicine to the injured freedom fighters secretly.{{Citation needed|date= May 2022}}<br />
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On 12 April 1971 Marandi crossed the border and went to [[India]] to collect medicine for the freedom fighters.<ref name=a/> After returning he saw that the people of Ruhea began to move to the refugee camps of India. In the meantime he was told to leave Ruhea Mission.<ref name=a/> Then he decided to leave his country with the people of his missionary. Though he crossed the border, he returned to Ruhea later.<ref name=a/><br />
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On 21 April 1971 an army jeep appeared in front of the Mission and four soldiers got down from the jeep. Marandi welcomed them and offered them tea and biscuits.<ref name=b>{{cite book |last= Tanveer Ahmed|first=S. M. |date=8 February 2018 |title=Christian Missions in East Bengal: The Life and Times of Archbishop Theotonius Amal Ganguly, CSC (1920-1977) |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-5326-1642-6|page=107}}</ref> They had a suspicion that freedom fighters might be given shelter in the mission. They searched and found nothing. Then they left the mission.{{Citation needed|date= May 2022}}<br />
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The jeep came back again after three hours.<ref name=b/> They took Marandi out of the mission. He was killed by them by bayonet charge.<ref name=a/> His dead body was taken to the Catholic Church at Islampur in India and he was buried there.<ref name=b/><br />
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A memorial monument was built at Ruhea Mission to memorise him.<ref name=a/> A football competition is held every year at Beniduar Mission on 21 April in memory of him. A road on the southern quarters of [[Dinajpur]] is named after Marandi.<ref name=a>{{Cite Banglapedia|article=Marandi, Father Lucas<br />
|author=Hossain, Urmee}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1922 births]]<br />
[[Category:1971 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Santali people]]<br />
[[Category:People from Dinajpur District, Bangladesh]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Bangladesh]]<br />
[[Category:People killed in the Bangladesh Liberation War]]</div>Bot