Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, OP (French: [lakɔʁdɛʁ]; 12 May 1802 – 21 November 1861), 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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