Died 1854-02-27.
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Félicité de La Mennais
Félicité Robert de La Mennais was a French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist. He was one of the most influential intellectuals of Restoration France. Lamennais is also considered the forerunner of both liberal Catholicism and Modernism.
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politics · French Catholic priest and philosopher (1782–1854) · Catholic priest · philosopher · politician · translator · theologian · writer · also Félicité de La Mennais, Félicité de Lamennais, Robert Félicité de Lamennais, Félicité Robert de Lamenais, Felicite Robert de Lamennais, L' Abbé de Lamennais
Born 19 June 1782 · Died 27 February 1854 · Q334973
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1846· 1 entry
Lamennais published Une voix de prison, written during his imprisonment
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1844· 1 entry
As Œuvres complètes de Lamennais
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1837· 1 entry
Published Les Affaires de Rome, des maux de l'Église et de la société, in which he provided his perspective on his relations with Gregory XVI
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1833· 1 entry
Broke with the Church and the following year published Paroles d'un croyant, which Pope Gregory XVI condemned for its philosophical theories
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1832· 1 entry
Found a way not merely to tolerate the new liberal constitution, but to expand the Church under the new liberties guaranteed
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1830· 2 entries
Founded L'Ami de l'ordre (precursor of L'Avenir) with Montalembert and Lacordaire
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And established a constitutional monarchy
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1824· 1 entry
Leo offered him a Vatican apartment and in 1828 a cardinalate, which Lamennais declined
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1817· 2 entries
And established his reputation throughout Europe
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The same year he published Essai sur l'indifférence en matière de religion
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1814· 1 entry
Published, with his brother, De la tradition de l'Église sur l'institution des évêques (1814), in which he strongly condemned Gallicanism and the interference of political authority in ecclesiastical affairs
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1811· 1 entry
And became professor of mathematics in an ecclesiastical college at Saint-Malo founded by his brother, who had been ordained a Catholic priest in 1804
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1782· 1 entry
Born 1782-06-19.
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