George Tyrrell
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George Tyrrell was an Anglo-Irish Catholic priest and a controversial theologian and scholar. A convert from Anglicanism, Tyrrell joined the Jesuit order in 1880 and was ordained as a priest in 1891.
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The stone erected at the grave of George Tyrrell
Henri Brémond
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Henri Brémond was a French literary scholar and philosopher, Catholic priest, and sometime Jesuit. He was one of the theological modernists.
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…who shared his concerns about reconciling Church doctrine with modern thought, including the English nun Maude Petre and the French Jesuit priest Henri Brémond. Tyrrell's open conflict with the Catholic authorities was triggered by his article "A Perverted Devotion", published in the Weekly Register in 1899…
Henri Brémond (right) shakes hand with Alexandre Miniac (left) at the Académie Française, c. 1923.