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Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange

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Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange in 1900

Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (21 February 1877 – 15 February 1964) was a French Dominican friar, philosopher and theologian. Garrigou-Lagrange was a neo-Thomist theologian, recognized along with Édouard Hugon and Martin Grabmann as distinguished theologians of the 20th century.

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  • Who am I in front of this humble girl [Marthe Robin]?
  • Quoted in Bernard Peyrous, Vita di Marthe Robin, Ed. Effatà, 2009.
  • I have the opportunity to let you know from now on, without betraying any secrets, that there is in the Drôme a holy woman who lives a contemplative life as a victim of love, Marthe Robin. I went to visit her at the Pope's personal request, to judge the theological expression of her faith. I was amazed by it and wrote it to the Pope.
  • Quoted in Bernard Peyrous, Vita di Marthe Robin, Ed. Effatà, 2009.
  • "Non est ignorantia infantis, sed est dementia senis, qui magnum[sic!] culturam habuit.
  • It is not the ignorance of a child, but the dementia of an old man, who had great [yes!] culture.
    • De sanctificatione Sacerdotum, I. 4, Rome, 1 July 1945.

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