Claude Mondésert (?-1990) was a French

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Fourvière Fourvière () is a district of Lyon, France, a hill immediately west of the old part of the town, rising from the river Saône. It is the site of the original Roman settlement of Lugdunum in 43 BC. The district contains many religious buildings i ...

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

and co-founder (with

Jean Daniélou Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou (; 14 May 1905 – 20 May 1974) was a French Jesuit and cardinal, an internationally well known patrologist, theologian and historian and a member of the Académie Française. Biography Early life and studies ...

and

Henri de Lubac Henri-Marie Joseph Sonier de Lubac (; 20 February 1896 – 4 September 1991), better known as Henri de Lubac, was a French Jesuit priest and cardinal who is considered one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. His writin ...

) of the ''

Sources Chrétiennes Sources Chrétiennes ( French "Christian sources") is a bilingual collection of patristic texts founded in Lyon in 1942 by the Jesuits Jean Daniélou, Claude Mondésert, and Henri de Lubac. Citations to the series are commonly made by the letter ...

'' collection. He specialised in the work of the early

Christian Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...

thinker,

Clement of Alexandria Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria ( grc , Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; – ), was a Christian theologian and philosopher who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Among his pupils were Origen and ...

, 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.

References

*''Clément d'Alexandrie, Les Stromates, Stromate IV'' (Sources Chrétiennes no.463), Paris, 2001 Claude Mondésert, Conclusions, in: CNRS (Ed.), Les martyrs de Lyon (Colloques internationaux du centre national de la recherche scientifique, N. 575), Paris 1978, p. 311-321. 20th-century French writers French religious writers 20th-century French Jesuits Year of birth missing 1990 deaths 20th-century French translators French male writers 20th-century male writers {{France-reli-bio-stub