Pope Francis has officially declared that the man who discovered Down\u2019s Syndrome, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lejeune, lived the Christian virtues to a heroic extent.<\/p>\n
In addition to being a brilliant professional, he combined his work with his family life. He was married to Birthe Bringstead and had five children. J\u00e9r\u00f4me died in 1994 and Birthe in 2020.<\/p>\n
BIRTHE LEJEUNE J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lejeune had to watch with great pain as his life\u2019s discovery was used to provoke abortions.<\/p>\n ELENA POSTIGO His advocacy for the lives of babies with Down syndrome may have cost him a great deal professionally. Some even say he lost the Nobel Prize for Medicine.<\/p>\n BIRTHE LEJEUNE Birthe Lejeune recalled that having denounced abortion closed many doors to her husband, although it seems to have opened others: those of Heaven. To be beatified, the promoters of his cause must now present proof of a miracle performed through the intercession of J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lejeune.<\/p>\n Javier Romero<\/p>\n Translation: Christian Campos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 21 2021. It is the first official step towards beatification. The man who discovered Down syndrome died in 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LasYNbKNERY","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bjeromelejeuneeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bjeromelejeuneeng.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lejeune's Wife
\n\u201cMy husband was a devout Catholic, but he was discrete. He didn\u2019t show off or boast about it, so he would pray in private, not in the public sphere.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lejeune Foundation
\n\u201cThis probably strengthened his fight for these people\u2019s defense: that his discovery was used for the exact opposite purpose that he had intended\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lejeune's Wife
\n\u201cWho knows. A lot of people think that\u2019s what happened. It\u2019s impossible to know who exactly will receive a Nobel prize, but some say that more than likely, his stance on abortion didn\u2019t sit too well with the selection committee in Sweden.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n