Léon Dehon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Léon Dehon

clergyman

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1843

Place of Birth: La Capelle, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 12-Aug-1925

Profession: Catholic priest, theologian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Léon-Gustave Dehon (14 March 1843 – 12 August 1925) - in religious Jean of the Sacred Heart - was a French Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Dehon's focus in his ecclesial life was to express his closeness with workers but above all wished to foster and promote a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
It also became his mission to establish an order that would be dedicated to this task as well as to working in the foreign and diocesan missions in France and abroad.
But impediments caused the order's dissolution though was later reformed and reestablished with Dehon assuming its leadership until his death.The process for his beatification started after his death but was halted in 2005 due to accusations that his published works were anti-Semitic in nature.
He had been named as Venerable on 8 March 1997.