http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08762a.htm. Lacordaire and Montalembert departed immediately, but Lamennais stayed on until Gregory's letter to the Polish bishops, which denounced the Polish revolution against the Tsar, dashed his last hopes. Besides some articles in the "Revue des Deux Mondes", the "Revue du Progrès" and "Le Monde", he published a series of pamphlets, e.g. Under the influence of this worthy priest and on the advice of M. Beysserre, a Sulpician, he decided, though not without strong repugnance and some sharp prickings of conscience, to take Holy orders, and was ordained a priest on 9 March, 1817. … From beginning to end the book was a vigorous attack on that indifference which appears (1) among those who, seeing in religion nothing but a political institution, think it a necessity only for the masses; (2) among those who admit the necessity of a religion for all men, but reject Revelation; (3) among those who recognize the necessity of a revealed religion, but think it permissible to deny all the truths which that religion teaches with the exception of certain fundamental articles. It was accompanied by a letter from Cardinal Pacca chastising de Lamennais in Gregory XVI’s name for publicly discussing matters best confined to the proper authorities, and that should have remained confidential, at least until the situation could be straightened out. Venerable Brothers, Greetings and Apostolic Blessing. While staying in Munich, Lamennais received the 1832 encyclical Mirari vos , which condemned religious pluralism in general and … In the last chapters of the book this philosophic system supports an entirely new method of apologetics. In these he attempts to prove, with the aid of history, that the chief dogmas of Christianity have been and are still, under various disguises, professed throughout the world. Rome was stirred by this behavior, and demanded frank and full adhesion to the Encyclical "Mirari vos". At La Chênaie there was a well filled library in which works of piety and theological books were mingled with the ancient classics and the works of the eighteenth-century philosophers. Not content with a defensive attitude in the presence of incredulity, it attacks the enemy boldly, supported by all the resources of dialectic, invective, irony, and eloquence. Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais (or De La Mennais) (19 June 1782 – 27 February 1854) was a French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist. Lamennais suspended the journal, and his views were condemned in the papal Encyclical Mirari vos. With this end in view he founded the journal "L'Avenir" (16 October, 1830) and his "General Agency for the Defense of Religious Liberty". The coup d'état of 1851 put an end to the political career of Lamennais, who relapsed into misery and isolation. Documents inedits (Paris, 1909); BLAIZE, Essai biographique sur M. F. de Lamennais (Paris, 1858); MERCIER, Lamennais (Paris, 1895); SPULLER, Lamennais (Paris, 1892); BOUTARD, Lamennais, sa vie et ses doctrines, I-II (1905-8); MARECHAL, Lamennais et Victor Hugo (Paris, 1906); IDEM, Lamennais et Lamartine (Paris, 1907). The clergy and all educated Catholics thrilled with joy and hope, when this champion entered the lists armed as none since Bossuet, for it was indeed with Bossuet and Pascal that this priest, yesterday unknown, was now compared. Lamennais, whose Father was a shipowner ennobled by Louis XVI, was ordained priest in 1816. To set himself right in the face of all this hostility, he suspended the publication of "L'Avenir" (15 November, 1831), and went to Rome to submit his cause to Gregory XVI. In his heart, however, he cherished deep resentment, the echoes of which reached the outer world through his correspondence. October 1, 1910. Jean-Marie and Félicité or Féli, as he was called in the family were taken to live with their uncle at La Chênaie, an estate not far from Saint-Malo, which Félicité was afterwards to make famous. While open to some criticism in regard to the development of its ideas and the force of some of the arguments employed, the "Essai" brought to Catholic apologetics a new strength and brilliancy, and at once commanded public attention. Then came the "Guide du premier âge", the "Journée du Chrétien", and a "Recueil de piété" (1828). This caught the attention of Pope Gregory XVI, who condemned them in Mirari Vos (15 August 1832). He waited a long time, but received no definite answer: then some days after his departure from Rome, appeared the Encyclical "Mirari vos" (15 August, 1832), in which the pope, without expressly designating him, condemned some of the ideas advanced in "L'Avenir" liberty of the press, liberty of conscience, revolt against princes, the need of regenerating Catholicism, etc. If the latter can furnish no certitude, how can we expect any from the general reason, which is but a synthesis of individual reasons? He retired for two years and appeared in public as a non-Christian. From 1809 he had devoted his moments of leisure to the translation of the "Spiritual Guide" of Louis de Blois. However, the fall of Napoleon, coming some months before the book appeared, made it no longer appropriate, and it thus obtained only a succès d' estime. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. If a temper impatient of all restraint and a pride overconfident in its own conceits deprived him of the blessings which he was instrumental in securing for others, this is surely no reason why the beneficiaries should forget to whom they owe their happier condition. Cette politique ne contente pas tout le monde3 et suscite bon nombre d'émeutes populaires. In a famous encyclical, Mirari Vos (August15, 1832), the theories were condemned, though Lamennais was not mentioned by name nor his equally famous collaborators, the Comte de Montalembert and Henri Lacordaire. Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback — especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads. Numerous attempts were made to bring him back to religion and to repentance, but in vain. Imprimatur. The congregation at one time possessed three houses La Chênaie, Malestroit, and Paris but it lived only about four years. Dubois, Bishop of New York, appealed to it to supply teachers to the Catholic University which it was then proposed to found in that city. After seeming to yield, Lamennais ended by refusing to submit without reserve or qualification. This ecclesiastical college having been closed by imperial authority, Félicité withdrew to La Chênaie, while his brother was called, as vicar-general, to Saint-Brieuc. In the audience finally granted him on March 13, 1832, the Pope said nothing about L’Avenir and its teachings. Transcription. The Vatican in turn demanded his frank and full adhesion to the encyclical Mirari vos. There exists, says Lamennais, a true religion, and there exists but one, which is absolutely necessary to salvation and to social order. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99... Born at Saint-Malo, 29 June, 1782; died at Paris, 27 February, 1854. He was the first apologist to compel the attention of unbelievers in the nineteenth century, and to force them to reckon with the Christian Faith. While he thus succeeded in completing his literary education and acquiring foreign languages, these studies undertaken without teachers or guidance necessarily left gaps in his training, and made him liable to contract dangerous habits of intellectual intolerance. "Le Livre du peuple" (1839), "L'Esclavage moderne" (1839), "Discussions critiques" (1841), "Du passe et de l'avenir du peuple" (1841), "Amschaspands et Darvands" (1843). In The Catholic Encyclopedia. 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