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Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste Henri

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Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste Henri (zhäN bätēst` äNrē` läkôrdĕr`), 1802–61, French Roman Catholic preacher and liberal. Ordained in 1827, he came under the influence of Lamennais Lamennais or La Mennais, Félicité Robert de , 1782–1854, French Roman Catholic apologist and liberal, b. Saint-Malo. He was largely self-educated by wide, indiscriminate reading.
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 and collaborated with him on Avenir, a journal advocating ultramontanism ultramontanism [Lat.,=beyond the mountains, i.e., the Alps], formerly, point of view of Roman Catholics who supported the pope as supreme head of the church, as distinct from those who professed Gallicanism or other tendencies opposing the papal jurisdiction.
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, complete freedom of the church from the state, and a wide program of democratic reform. After papal condemnation of the journal, Lacordaire submitted. He became known as one of the greatest Catholic preachers; his sermons at Notre-Dame in Paris were the literary and social sensation of the day. He entered the Dominican order and was responsible for the revival of that order in France. Always a liberal, Lacordaire greeted the revolution of 1848 with enthusiasm and sat for a time as a deputy on the left. The coup of Napoleon III sent him into voluntary exile after he had attacked the government unsparingly. In 1861 he was elected to the French Academy.

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See biography by L. C. Sheppard (1964).



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