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4 unusual facts about Paul Glynn


Paul Glynn

He was inspired to follow Padre Lionel Marsden, a former prisoner-of-war of the Japanese on the Burma Railway, to work for reconciliation with the people of Japan.

Paul Glynn (born in 1928 in Lismore, in New South Wales, Australia) is a Marist missionary priest and writer from Australia.

There he wrote A Song for Nagasaki, a book recounting the life of Takashi Nagai, a radiologist who converted to Catholicism and survived the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaski.

He is a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government and the Order of Australia from the Australian government for reconciliation work between Japan and Australia.



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