{"id":7279,"date":"2024-07-26T22:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T22:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/learn\/french-dominican-friar-created-the-motto-for-the-olympic-games\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T22:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T22:02:16","slug":"french-dominican-friar-created-the-motto-for-the-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/french-dominican-friar-created-the-motto-for-the-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Franz\u00f6sischer Dominikanerm\u00f6nch schuf das Motto f\u00fcr die Olympischen Spiele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/258423\/french-dominican-friar-created-the-motto-for-the-olympic-games\">Quelle <\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%;margin-bottom: 25px\">\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lemaolimpico240726.jpg?quality=80&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"display: block;margin: auto;max-width: 100%\" \/><br \/>\n  <span style=\"text-align: right;font-style: italic\">The motto of the modern Olympic Games, \u201cFaster, Higher, Stronger,\u201d was coined by French Dominican friar Louis Henri Didon. \/ Credit: Pixabay \/ Public Domain<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 26, 2024 \/ 17:45 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n<p>The motto of the modern Olympic Games, \u201cFaster, Higher, Stronger,\u201d was coined by French Dominican friar Louis Henri Didon, who became friends with the founder of the modern Olympic Games, Baron&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/ioc\/faq\/history-and-origin-of-the-games\/who-was-pierre-de-coubertin\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"editor-rtfLink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Pierre de Coubertin<\/a>, five years before the 1896 Athens Games.<\/p>\n<p>The motto, originally formulated in Latin as \u201cCitius, Altius, Fortius,<em>\u201c<\/em>&nbsp;was used before the modern Olympic movement at St. Albert the Great School in Paris, where the Dominican friar was the principal.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1840, Didon entered the Rondeau Minor Seminary in Grenoble, France, beginning at the age of nine, and during his youth, he stood out for his ability as an athlete. After visiting the Carthusian monastery in Grenoble, he decided to follow a religious vocation and took the habit of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) at the age of 16. Six years later, after a period of formation in Rome, he was ordained a priest at age 22.<\/p>\n<h2>Military chaplain, prisoner,\u00a0and\u00a0refugee<\/h2>\n<p>Didon soon gained fame as a preacher. During the brief Franco-Prussian War, which broke out in July 1870, he was a military chaplain and for a time was held as a prisoner. When he fell ill, he\u00a0ended up as\u00a0a refugee in Geneva, Switzerland. From there he was sent to Marseille, where he resumed his sometimes controversial preaching activity, which led to his being sent to Corsica in 1880.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A decade later he was appointed principal of St. Albert the Great School in Paris where he established sports as part of the school\u2019s educational program and promoted sports competition. This decision\u00a0was the result of\u00a0belief in the value of sports and the contact he had had with Pierre de Coubertin since 1891.<\/p>\n<p>In the first race they organized, the Dominican decided to embroider on the school flag\u00a0the famous motto, which would become an Olympic motto in 1894, during the first Olympic Congress held in Paris in 1894.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, Athens hosted the first Olympic Games, which have since been held every four years, interrupted only three times due to World Wars I and II (1916, 1940, and 1944) and postponed from 2020 to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dieser Artikel&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aciprensa.com\/noticias\/105499\/paris-2024-un-dominico-frances-fue-el-creador-del-lema-de-los-juegos-olimpicos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"editor-rtfLink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>wurde zuerst ver\u00f6ffentlicht<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;by ACI Prensa, CNA\u2019s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Quelle Das Motto der modernen Olympischen Spiele \u201eSchneller, h\u00f6her, st\u00e4rker\u201c wurde von dem franz\u00f6sischen Dominikanerm\u00f6nch Louis Henri Didon gepr\u00e4gt. \/ Bildnachweis: Pixabay \/ Public Domain ACI Prensa Mitarbeiter, 26. Juli 2024 \/ 17:45 Uhr (CNA). Das Motto der modernen Olympischen Spiele \u201eSchneller, h\u00f6her, st\u00e4rker\u201c wurde von dem franz\u00f6sischen Dominikanerm\u00f6nch Louis Henri [\u2026] gepr\u00e4gt.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-7279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/lemaolimpico240726.jpg?fit=672%2C448&quality=80&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21539,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/pope-francis-hungarian-prime-minister-viktor-orban-talk-ukraine-and-family-policies\/","url_meta":{"origin":7279,"position":0},"title":"Pope Francis, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00c3\u00a1n talk Ukraine and family policies","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"Dezember 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"[ad_1] Pope Francis meets with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00c3\u00a1n on Dec. 4, 2024, at the Vatican. \/ Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 4, 2024 \/ 15:10 pm (CNA). 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