Antoine-Adrien Lamourette

Antoine-Adrien Lamourette

Antoine-Adrien Lamourette (Frévent, May 31, 1742 - Paris, January 11, 1794) was a French clergyman and politician. biography

Lamourette was a lazarist and politician during the French Revolution. The last three years of his life, from 1791 to 1794, he was bishop of Lyon, but never recognized by the Vatican as such. He responded sharply to the corrupt clergy of Ancien Régime. He also fought hard against the philosophers' fanatism. He devised the name Christian Democracy for a political flow that is still current.

Antoine-Adrien Lamourette belonged to the Lazarist congregation and was the first vicar in Arras. In his teaching of faith, he blended honest faith with philosophy. As self-proclaimed homme éclairé (illuminated person), he abolished the ideals of Christianity in the French Revolution.

As an Episcopal Director of the Lyon Cathedral, he commissioned a relatively drastic adaptation of the priest choir, causing the dock hall to be severely destroyed. Only a few centuries later, between 1935 and 1936, this dockroom was restored in its medieval listening.

Lamourette protested against the September 1792 assassinations, participated in contra-revolutionary activities in Lyon in 1793 and was executed by the so-called Jacobine Terror on May 31, 1794. Bibliography Also see

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