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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat....

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Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Father Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, born on the 12 May 1802 at Recey-sur-Ource (Côte-d'Or), died on the 21 November 1861 at Sorèze (Tarn), a French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist. Re-established the Post- Revolutionary Dominican Order in France, and is today considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern Roman Catholicism.

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