TY - JOUR
TI - Fr. Leon Dehon  – a broad-minded man with an open heart 
AU - Gruca, Stanisław
TI - Fr. Leon Dehon  – a broad-minded man with an open heart 
AB - 
	To reach the roots of one’s monastic order’s spirituality is believed to be a task and a mission of each congregation. One considers such an activity as one of the ways of keeping the founder’s mission up-to-date in the modern world. This article aims at showing Fr. Leon Jan Dehon, the founder of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as a broadminded man with an open heart to both God and challenges faced by the Church and France on the turn of the 19th century. Rapid industrial development and new social and political movements led to the change of social system in Europe. Not only was the newly created working class most numerous but also in hopeless plight. One of those who devoted themselves to the ministry of social justice was Fr. Leon Jan Dehon. Since the very beginning he had become fully involved in social work among the poor, work with the elite, rising awareness of the clergy in the social matters as well as acquainting the working classes with the Gospel. His activity based on the Tradition of the Church together with the new priestly methods soon brought him esteem and being called „the progenitor of social works”. 
VL - 2018 - Volume XXII
IS - nr 1 (34) Dehonian Charism today
PY - 2018
SN - 2543-5442
C1 - 2544-3283
SP - 10
EP - 34
DO - 10.4467/25443283SYM.18.001.9682
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/sympozjum/article/ojciec-leon-dehon-czlowiek-z-otwartym-sercem-i-umyslem
KW - Dehon
KW - the industrial revolution
KW - working class
KW - the devotion to the Heart of Jesus
KW - unity
KW - the Church
KW - the training of the clergy