Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire French Priest And Activist Born 1802 - November 21 in History | This Day Story

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November 21, 1861

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, French priest and activist (born 1802)

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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