Menu Close

How Jérôme Lejeune Revolutionized Society’s View on Down Syndrome

Jerome Lejeune was a French Catholic pro-life paediatrician and geneticist, best known for his discovery of the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities.

On the occasion of the release of her biography about the ‘father of modern genetics’ in the US, the postulator of his cause of canonization discusses the heroic nature of his virtues, as well as his spiritual and intellectual legacy.