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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