Jean-Marie de Lamennais, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Breton priest and founder
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Place of Birth: Saint-Malo, Brittany, France
About Jean-Marie de Lamennais
- The Very Rev.
- Canon Jean-Marie-Robert de Lamennais (or de la Mennais) (1780–1860) was a Breton Catholic priest, and brother of the noted philosopher Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, whom he influenced in their youth.
- He was a leading figure in the revival of the Catholic Church in France after the French Revolution, involved in founding three religious institutes as part of this effort. Pope Paul VI proclaimed him to be Venerable in 1966 and his cause of canonization is ongoing.
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