{"id":2645,"date":"2020-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:35:09","slug":"henri-madelin-theologian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"Henri Madelin, theologian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Henri Madelin –a French Jesuit priest and theologian – passed away on 8 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Madelin was born on 26 April 1936 in a family of nine children. His family moved to Blois in 1939, where Madelin practiced scouting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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After studying philosophy at the Jesuit formation in Vals-près-le-Puy, two years at Collège Libermann in Douala, and studying theology in Fourvière, Madelin was ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus in 1967.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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In 1973, Madelin became director of Action populaire, which became the Center for Research and Social Action (CERAS). After earning a doctorate in political science, he chaired the Centre Sèvres in Paris from 1985 to 1991, when he was appointed national chaplain of the Mouvement chrétien des cadres et dirigeants.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Madelin succeeded Jean-Yves Calvez as editor-in-chief of the Catholic journal Études. He worked as a lecturer at Sciences Po, and was a member of the Catholic Office of Information and Initiative for Europe. He also taught at the Institut Catholique de Paris.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Henri Madelin died on 8 April 2020 in Lille at the age of 83 during the pandemic due to COVID-19.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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Henri Madelin –a French Jesuit priest and theologian – passed away on 8 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19.   Madelin was born on 26 April 1936 in a family of nine children. 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