Marie-Joseph Lagrange

Marie -Joseph Lagrange OP ( born March 7, 1855 in Bourg -en- Bresse, † March 10, 1938 in Marseille, actually Albert Marie -Henri Lagrange ) was a Catholic priest biblique in the order of the Dominicans and founder of the École in Jerusalem.

He grew up in a bourgeois- intellectual milieu. His father approached the démocratie chrétienne already in a period in time when the traditional Catholicism in France, the Republic still faces occurred predominantly negative. The efforts of Pope Leo XIII. to come to an agreement (the so Gen. Ralliement ) found in the clergy and people still poorly received.

Young Albert Lagrange attended a minor seminary since 1868. Besides a strong interest in theology and church, there was also a preference for archeology, geology, history and the sciences in general. While his father would have liked him to be a notary, but soon became a spiritual vocation.

Training

Since 1872, first during his courses at the Military School of Saint- Cyr, he met the Dominicans know. Father Lagrange urged his son to study law, which as early as 1878, at the age of 23 years, Albert graduated with a doctorate. He then entered the seminary of Issy -les -Moulineaux.

Since 1877 Lagrange underwent a personal conversion, as a result, he began his novitiate at the Dominicans in Saint -Maximin- la -Sainte -Baume, 1879.

He was ordained a priest in 1883 in Zamora. During his studies he spent among others a year in Salamanca to learn Hebrew. He taught there and in Toulouse 1884-88 church history and philosophy. He studied 1888-90 also extensively ancient languages ​​in Vienna (especially Arabic, Egyptian ), including where he met the " German " know biblical exegesis. In Vienna in 1889 it reached the order to travel to Jerusalem.

P. Marie -Joseph Lagrange ( as the Order Name ) has established in 1890 the famous École biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem. Since 1882, Lagrange in contact with the Dominican Convent of Saint- Etienne in Jerusalem; In 1903 he was appointed consultant to the newly established Pontifical Biblical Commission.

The Bible "Catholic" read

The work of Father Lagrange led him to the conviction that the Holy Scriptures, especially if they are prepared critically and scientifically, essentially governs both the history of Israel as well as the life and ministry of Jesus altogether reliable expresses.

The success of the École biblique is the famous Jerusalem Bible, the. In the Catholic Church widest recognition has found.

With regard to the Gospels, the school of Lagrange but rather just confirmed by way of a " critique de la critique " ( as Jean Guitton ), a number of main lines of official church tradition. Lagrange saw the Holy Land as it as a " fifth gospel " to, even as gospel, which confirms the Gospels with historical accuracy, geographically and archaeologically.

Better than by the daily contact with the places that tell of the events that have happened there could be so Lagrange, the Gospels do not illuminate. Almost all of these places Lagrange has sought and found, during 50 years of intensive research. The verification has succeeded with such amazing precision that not only the reports of Matthew ( the tax collector Levi and apostles ) and Markus ( interpreter of Peter ), but also of John ( the beloved disciple of Jesus) and Luke (employee of Paul, who traditionally the Virgin Mary knew ) appear largely confirmed. Thus, the continued work of the École biblique a ( historically and critically based ) criticism of a hasty, subjective so-called literary criticism of the Bible dar.

Crisis and recognition

In the dispute over the modernism Lagrange was dismissed in 1912 for one year from Jerusalem, without ever having been exposed, however, formal condemnations. With great fidelity to the Church, he was able to continue his research into old age.

Health Because the researchers returned in 1935 in the monastery of his novitiate in Southern France back. Lagrange died in 1938 in the convent of St. Maximin. Pope John Paul II in 1988 initiated the process of beatification. The French philosopher Jean Guitton published in 1992 be authored at the request of the Pope Portrait of Father Lagrange.

Works

  • M. Loisy et le modernism, Paris, 1932.
  • Dominican brother
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1855
  • Died in 1938
  • Man
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