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Camille de La Croix

Camille de La Croix (born Camille Adolphe Ferdinand Marie de La Croix on July 21, 1831, in Mont-Saint-Aubert, Belgium) was a Belgian Jesuit priest who made significant contributions to both music education and archaeology. He resided in Poitiers, France, from 1864 until his death on April 13, 1911. After beginning his theological studies, de La Croix moved to France, where he was ordained a priest in 1864. His interest in archaeology emerged in 1877, leading him to conduct numerous excavations. His work focused particularly on ancient and early Christian periods, and he is noted for discovering the ancient site of Sanxay, the Saint-Jean Baptistery in Poitiers, and the Hypogeum of the Dunes in the same city. Although his occasionally empirical methodology was not universally accepted and his conclusions were sometimes contested, his contributions were recognized with his appointment as a Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honour in 1896.

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