Rudolf Dilong

Rudolf Dilong was born on 1 August 1905 in Trstená, in Orava, where he took his baccalaureate before entering the Franciscans. A priest after studying theology, he lived in the friaries of Kremnica, Hlohovec, Malacky and Žilina and taught religion in several secondary schools. A volunteer chaplain on the Eastern Front during the war, he made his way to Rome after 1945, then in 1947 to Argentina, where he served the Slovak émigrés of Buenos Aires and edited Slovenské zvesti. Settled in 1965 at the Pittsburgh friary, he died there on 7 April 1986.

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• PoetryMladý svadobníkRudolf Dilong · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature