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HENRI DIDON (1840-1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRI See also:DIDON (1840-1900)  , See also:French Dominican, was See also:born at Trouvet, See also:Isere, on the 17th of See also:March 184o . He joined the See also:Dominicans, under the See also:influence of See also:Lacordaire, in 1858, and completed his theological studies at the See also:Minerva See also:convent at See also:Rome . The influence of Lacordaire was shown in the zeal displayed by See also:Didon in favour of a reconciliation between See also:philosophy and See also:science . In 1871 his fame had so much grown that he was chosen to deliver the funeral oration over the murdered See also:arch-See also:bishop of See also:Paris, Monseigneur G . See also:Darboy . He also delivered some discourses at the See also:church of St See also:Jean de See also:Beauvais in Paris on the relations between science and See also:religion; but his utterances, especially on the question of See also:divorce, were deemed suspicious by his superiors, and his intimacy with See also:Claude See also:Bernard the physiologist was disapproved . He was interdicted from See also:preaching and sent into retirement at the convent of Corbara in See also:Corsica . After eighteen months he emerged, and travelled in See also:Germany, See also:publishing an interesting See also:work upon that See also:country, entitled See also:Les Allemands (See also:English See also:translation by R . Ledos de See also:Beaufort, See also:London, 1884) . On his return to See also:France in 1890 he produced his best known work, Jesus-See also:Christ (2 vols., Paris), for which he had qualified himself by travel in the See also:Holy See also:Land . In the same See also:year he became director of the See also:College See also:Albert-le-See also:Grand at See also:Arcueil, and founded three See also:auxiliary institutions, Ecole Lacordaire, Ecole See also:Laplace and Ecole St Dominique . He wrote, in addition, several See also:works on educational questions, and augmented his fame as an eloquent preacher by discourses preached during See also:Lent and See also:Advent .

He died at See also:

Toulouse on the 13th of March 1900 . See the See also:biographies by J. de Romano (1891), and A. de Coulanges (Paris, 1900) ; and especially the work of Stanislas Reynaud, entitled Le Pere Didon, sa See also:vie et son teuvre (Paris, 1904) .

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