Claude Mondésert was a French

France

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 Jesuit at Fourvière

Fourvière

Fourvière is a district of Lyon, France located on a hill immediately west of the old part of the town, rising abruptly from the river Saône and then gently sloping down to the north-west. It is the site of the original Roman settlement of Lugdunum...

, Lyon

Lyon

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 and co-founder (with Jean Daniélou and Henri de Lubac

Henri de Lubac

Henri-Marie de Lubac, SJ was a French Jesuit priest who became a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, and is considered to be one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century...

) of the Sources Chrétiennes

Sources chretiennes

Sources Chrétiennes is a bilingual collection of patristic texts founded in Lyon in 1942 by the Jesuits Jean Daniélou, Claude Mondésert, and Henri de Lubac....

collection. He specialised in the work of the early Christian

Christian

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 thinker, Clement of Alexandria

Clement of Alexandria

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, several volumes of which he edited or translated in this series.

He participated in a Colloquium held 1977 in Lyon concerning the persecution of Christians in Lugdunum in the year 177.