Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“Les mots de la liberté sont grands chez un peuple qui n’en connaît pas la mesure.”
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Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, OP, often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French Catholic priest, journalist, theologian and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in post-Revolutionary France. Lacordaire was reputed to be the greatest pulpit orator of the nineteenth century.
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culture · French preacher (1802–1861) · politician · journalist · writer · religious role · preacher · friar · Catholic theologian · also Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, Henri Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire, Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste Henri Dominique de Lacordaire
Born 12 May 1802 · Died 21 November 1861 · Q605534
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2026· 3 entries
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“Entre le fort et le faible, entre le riche et le pauvre, entre le maître et le serviteur, c’est la liberté qui opprime et la loi qui affranchit.”
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Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“Ce n'est pas génie, ni gloire, ni amour qui reflète la grandeur de l'âme humaine; c'est bonté.”
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1861· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Died 1861-11-21.
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1860· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Career landmark: Seat 18 of the Académie française (1860–1861).
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1855· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
The pope supported Jandel by naming him general master of the Order
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1850· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
The Dominican Province of France was officially re-established under his direction and he was elected provincial superior, but Pope Pius IX named Alexandre Jandel, a philosophical opponent of Lacordaire, vicar general of
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1849· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Established a house of studies in Paris
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1848· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1848–1848).
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1841· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Returned to France wearing the illegal Dominican habit
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1837· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Seeing the example of Guéranger's restoration of the Benedictines, Lacordaire decided to enter the Dominican Order despite the loss of certain personal freedoms that would entail, and to re-establish the Dominicans in Fr
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1836· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
After such considerable success, he was still the object of mounting attacks on his theological stance
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1835· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
At the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, as part of the Notre-Dame Lectures specially aimed at the catechesis of Christian youth, which had been inaugurated at the behest of his friend Ozanam
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1834· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Also challenged Lamennais, who rather than accept what he saw as Rome's reactionary absolutism, publicly renounced his priesthood and published "Les Paroles d’un Croyant" (Words of a Believer,) a vociferous republican
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1826· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Continued this education in Paris, which was generally mediocre
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1824· 2 entries
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Over the objections of his mother and friends
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Re-embraced Catholicism and soon decided to become a priest
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1822· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Left for Paris to complete his legal training
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1802· 1 entry
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Born 1802-05-12.
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