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1840 · English translation 1883 · Devotional biography
Life of Saint Dominic
A nineteenth-century Dominican restoration reads the founder’s life as a summons to preaching, poverty, and apostolic freedom.
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Dominican friar · Preacher
Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, O.P.
1802–1861
The restorer of the Order of Preachers in post-revolutionary France and a major Catholic orator.
In brief
Life & thought
Lacordaire joined historical imagination, public preaching, and confidence in Christian freedom. His Life of Saint Dominic belongs to the nineteenth-century Dominican revival and should be read as devotional history rather than modern critical biography.