Background
Mario Vergara was born in 1910 and was baptized on 20 November - a week after his birth.
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Mario Vergara
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He entered the seminary in Aversa and studied there until the age of 17 when he was admitted to a seminary in Naples.
Career
He was beatified in 2014 after the recognition of his martyrdom. He was the last of nine children. lieutenant was there where his missionary vocation emerged.
In 1929, he entered the seminary in Monza and he later received the tonsure and the minor orders by the Bishop of Aversa in 1932.
By September that same year, he travelled to Myanmar to begin his missionary activities. Vergara was entrusted a small village and it was there that he ensured that there be regular catechesis lessons and the celebration of the sacraments.
He also established various assistance services and an orphanage for children. When World World War II started, Vergara was interned in a British concentration camp in India in 1940.
After he was released he travelled to Delhi and later to Calcutta in June 1946.
lieutenant was there that he underwent nephrectomy surgery. He returned to Myanmar in 1947 and continued his mission there, and met the catechist Isidoro Ngei Ko Latin The two worked together in the villages.
After the nation gained independence in 1948, both Vergara and Ko Latin received death threats.
This culminated in 1950 when the two were both murdered by guerillas. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved the cause of beatification which commenced on 23 October 2001.
This bestowed upon him the title of Servant of God. Pope Francis approved his and Isidoro Ngei Ko Latin"s martyrdom on 9 December 2013, thus, allowing for their beatification.
Cardinal Angelo Amato represented the pope at the beatification on 24 May 2014.
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Born
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Nationality
Italy -
Religion
Roman Catholic