Louis Jacques Maurice de Bonald (30 October 1787 – 23 February 1870) was a French cardinal

Cardinal (Catholicism)

A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

 (1841).

Born at Millau

Millau

Millau is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. It is located at the confluence of the Tarn and Dourbie rivers.-History:...

, he was the son of the philosopher Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald

Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald

Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald , was a French counter-revolutionary philosopher and politician.-Life:...

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He was condemned by the council of state for a pastoral letter attacking Dupin the elder

André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin

André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin , commonly called Dupin the Elder, was a French advocate, president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative Assembly....

's Manuel de droit ecclsiastique. In 1848 he held a memorial service for those who fell gloriously in defence of civil and religious liberty. In 1851 he nevertheless advocated in the senate the maintenance of the temporal power of the Pope by force of arms.

See also

• Our Lady of La Salette
  Our Lady of La Salette
  La Salette is a small mountaintop village near Grenoble, France. It is most noted for an apparition of the Virgin Mary that was reported in 1846 by two shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, followed by numerous accounts of miraculous healings....