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Léon-Gustave Dehon

Roman Catholic priest
Also known as: Jean du Coeur de Jésus, John of the Heart of Jesus(Show More)
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Léon-Gustave Dehon (born March 14, 1843, La Capelle-en-Thiérache, France—died Aug. 12, 1925, Brussels, Belg.) was a French Roman Catholic priest who founded the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a congregation of priests and brothers dedicated to spreading the apostolate of the Sacred Heart. Educated at the Sorbonne, Dehon was ordained priest in 1868 at Rome. After attending the first Vatican Council (1869–70), he returned to France, where, at Saint-Quentin, he...

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