Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( religious name Dominique ) ( born May 12, 1802 in Recey -sur -Ource, Côte-d'Or department, † November 21, 1861 in Sorèze ) was a French Dominican preacher and theologian.

Life

Lacordaire, a brother of Jean Théodore Lacordaire, first studied in Dijon jurisprudence, but resigned in 1824 in the Seminary of St. Sulpice. He received ordination to the priesthood in 1827 and founded in 1830 with Félicité de Lamennais the Avenir. At the same time, he opened with Charles de Montalembert, a free school, without wishing to submit to the laws of the University. When the Pope Gregory XVI. 1832 Avenir damned to Lacordaire submitted. After returning from Rome in 1833 to Paris, he captivated his audience since 1835 at the instigation of Frédéric Ozanam and Archbishop Hyacinthe -Louis de Quélen at Lenten sermons in Notre- Dame de Paris by his eloquence and the fact that he all interests and movements of the time, the matter nationality and freedom, industry and policy in the sphere of his meetings moved.

Since his 1840, the new archbishop of Paris Denis Auguste Affre prohibited the pulpit, he stepped forward to break free of its authority, after being in the Considérations philosophiques sur le système de Lamennais (Paris 1834) and Lettre sur le saint- siège (Paris 1838), had his principles expressed in the Avenir withdraw formally, on an Italian trip to the Dominican Order one. This step will Vie de saint Dominique ( 2nd edition Paris 1844; German, Regensburg, 1871) is related.

In February 1841, he appeared in the habit of the Dominican again in the pulpit of Notre Dame, in 1848 even as the people's representatives in the Constituent National Assembly, but laid in May from his position down again. In 1850 he traveled to Rome and was Provincial of the Dominican Order in France. Since 1853 he was confined to the management of his school in Sorreze. In 1860 he was admitted to the Académie française.

Works and correspondence

  • Oeuvres completes ( including his sermons ) (Paris 1873 in 9 volumes)
  • Pulpit lectures at the Notre Dame Church in German translation (Tübingen 1846-52, 4 volumes)
  • Testament du Père Lacordaire (1870; German, Freiburg 1872). Edited by Count Montalembert this work contains his autobiography
  • Correspondance à sa famille inédite, etc. ( 2nd edition 1876)
  • Lettre à Théophile Foisset (1886, 2 volumes)

Quotes

  • Entre le fort et le faiblement, entre le riche et le pauvre, entre le maître et le serviteur, c'est la liberté et la loi qui qui opprime affranchit.
  • Ce n'est pas genie, gloire ni, ni amour qui reflète la grandeur de l' âme humaine; c'est bonté.
  • La liberté n'est possible que dans un pays où le droit sur ​​l' emporte les passions.
  • Il ya trois actes de gouvernement: éclairer, soutenir, combattre. Éclairer les aveugles, soutenir les faibles, combattre les ennemis.
  • Les mots sont de la liberté grands chez un peuple qui la mesure pas n'en connait.
  • Source Pity que les politiques qui se croient assez forts pour le monde avec des gouverner écus de cinq francs et des gendarmes!
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