The Life of Léon Papin-Dupont: The Holy Man of Tours

Library of Religious Biography #8

by Edward Healy Thompson (Adaptation), Pierre-Désiré Janvier

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484 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1880

About the author

Edward Healy Thompson (1813, Oakham, Rutland - 21 May 1891, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) was an English Roman Catholic writer.

He was educated at Oakham School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Having taken Anglican orders, he obtained a curacy at Calne, Wiltshire.

After some years of the Anglican ministry at Marylebone, Ramsgate, and elsewhere, he became a Catholic in 1846. The rest of his life, the latter years of which were spent at Cheltenham, he devoted to religious literature.