Prosper Guéranger
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Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger was a French priest and Benedictine monk, who served for nearly 40 years as the abbot of the monastery of Solesmes. Through the new Abbey of Solesmes, he became the foun
A painting of Guéranger by Claude-Ferdinand Gaillard (1874)
Solesmes abbey
Guéranger in 1840
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 Orde
Henri-Dominique Lacordaire at the convent of Sainte-Sabine in Rome. Portrait of Dominique Lacordaire by Théodore Chassériau (1840), Musée du Louvre
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert
Lacordaire preaching his Lenten Conferences from the elevated pulpit at Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, 1845.
Lacordaire, ca.1855