Mariano Gagnon, American Catholic priest and author (died 2017)

Mariano Gagnon

American missionary and author

Mariano Gagnon was an American Franciscan friar and Catholic priest, who served as a missionary in Peru. Gagnon founded the Cutivereni mission in Peru's Ene River valley to assist the indigenous Asháninka people who were being forced out of their homes in the jungle by settlers.…