About Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux
Lived 1826 – 1897 (aged 71). Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux (1826–1897) was a bishop of Tournai in Belgium.
Life Rousseaux was born in Halle on 19 January 1826.
Rousseaux held two diocesan synods, in 1882 and 1885. He increased the number of parishes in the industrial towns of the coalfields. His concern for the poor and his denunciation of the condition of workers in an 1886 pastoral letter led to him being dubbed "the workers' bishop".
He died in Tournai on 23 September 1897.
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Roman Catholic bishop (1826-1897)
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Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux was born on 19 January 1826 in Halle.
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Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux died on 23 September 1897 in Kain, Tournai.
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Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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