Jean Daniélou | |
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| Cardinal-Deacon of San Saba | |
 Daniélou inFlorence with the mayor,Giorgio La Pira (left) in 1953. | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 30 April 1969 |
| Predecessor | Augustin Bea |
| Successor | Joseph Schröffer |
| Previous post | Titular Archbishop of Taormina (1969) |
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| Ordination | 20 August 1938 |
| Consecration | 19 April 1969 by François Marty |
| Created cardinal | 28 April 1969 byPope Paul VI |
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| Born | Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou (1905-05-14)14 May 1905 |
| Died | 20 May 1974(1974-05-20) (aged 69) Paris, France |
| Motto | Fluvium aquæ vitæ ("The stream of the water of life") |
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Jean-Guenolé-Marie DaniélouS.J. (French:[danjelu]; 14 May 1905 – 20 May 1974) was a FrenchJesuit andcardinal, an internationally well knownpatrologist,theologian and historian and a member of theAcadémie française.
Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou was born on 14 May 1905 inNeuilly-sur-Seine. He was the son ofCharles Daniélou and Madeleine Clamorgan. His father was ananticlerical politician who several times as a minister served in the French government, while his mother was aCatholic educator and the founder of institutions for women's education. His brotherAlain (1907–1994) was a notedIndologist and historian.
Daniélou studied at theSorbonne and passed hisagrégation in grammar in 1927. He joined theSociety of Jesus in 1929 and during hisregency taught at a boys' school inPoitiers, from 1934 to 1936. He then studiedtheology atFourvière inLyon underHenri de Lubac, who introduced him to the specialized study of theFathers of the Church. He wasordained apriest on 19 August 1938.[1]
DuringWorld War II, Daniélou served with theAir Force in 1939–1940. With the fall of France toNazi Germany he was returned to civilian life and began doctoral studies, completing in 1942 histhesis on the spiritual doctrine ofGregory of Nyssa. He was then appointed chaplain to the female section of theÉcole Normale Supérieure, atSèvres. He spent most of his time on research inpatristics, and he became, together withHenri de Lubac, one of the founders of theSources Chrétiennes book series. In 1944 he was named Professor ofEarly Christian History at theInstitut Catholique de Paris, later becomingdean there. Beginning in the 1950s he produced several historical studies which includedThe Bible and the Liturgy,The Lord of History, andFrom Shadows to Reality that furnished background for the development ofCovenantal Theology.[2]
Thoroughly grounded in theFathers of the Church, who worked from Scripture, Daniélou generally avoided the neo-Thomistic terminology and approach and used a more relational vocabulary, emphasizing our self-gift in response to God's gift in Jesus Christ, with the gradual unveiling of the Trinitarian life in history.[3]
Pope John XXIII appointed Daniélou aperitus of theSecond Vatican Council.[4] In 1969Pope Paul VI made him acardinal. As a result, he was ordained to theepiscopaltitular see ofTaormina, and assigned the title ofCardinal-Deacon of San Saba, a Jesuit-run parish in Rome.[5] Rather like his theology professorHenri de Lubac, Daniélou twice refused the cardinalate but eventually accepted at the insistence of Paul VI.[1] He was elected to theAcadémie Française on 9 November 1972 to succeed CardinalEugène Tisserant.[4]
He died unexpectedly in 1974 in the home of a woman who was alleged to be a prostitute. TheSociety of Jesus, after an investigation, stated that Daniélou was bringing a gift of money to pay for the bail of the woman's husband. Like a number of other prominent public figures, Daniélou's brother defended him strongly, pointing out that he had always gone out of his way to serve those in most need.[6][7]
A number of Daniélou's works on the early Church, often abridged for a popular audience, remain in print.
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