Marcel-Marie Desmarais, (April 6, 1908,
Montreal
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– July 16, 1994,
Montreal
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), was a
Quebec
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writer, preacher and broadcaster. A member of the
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Dominican Order
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, he became a personality through his popular books and radio and TV programs (
CKAC
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et
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) in
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. He was also sent as missionary to
Brazil
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during the 1940s.
In 1986 Desmarais won the
Eugene Piccard Award for ''The Magic of the Past'' (''La Magie du Passé'').
Selected works
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References
1908 births
1994 deaths
20th-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests
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