ETOURNEAU, Thomas. – Preacher and lecturer, born at Nantes on 19 July 1853, died at La Chapelle-Basse-Mer on 30 July 1908. Dominican from 1875. A renowned orator, he delivered sermons and lectures in various cities of France and Belgium. For four years (1898–1902) he preached at Notre-Dame in Paris, developing the great Wednesday lectures on Catholic dogma and apologetics: God, Providence, evil. He published these lectures as *Les grandes notions du catholicisme*, Paris 1898–1902.
Bibl.: Nécrologie, *L’Année dominicaine*, 48 (1908), pp. 385–90. Alfonso d’Amato
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Etruscans, religion of the – Schematic reconstruction of an Etruscan temple of the archaic age.
