Jesus caritas charles de foucauld biography

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Greetings

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Presentation of our Association

Jesus is the unique model that Charles de Foucauld continues to reveal to us and is the One at the heart of the different groups that make up the “Charles de Foucauld Spiritual Family”.

Each group, each member has its own history. Groups are to be found in a very different contexts in the Church and in the world.

Since , our Association has brought together some of those who refer to Charles de Foucauld as founder, or as the person who directly inspires their life or their community.

It is this “Charles de Foucauld Spiritual Family Association” that created this site and is responsible for it.

“The love of God, the love of men, is my whole life, it will be my whole life, I hope!”

Charles de Foucauld shows us a way to live the Gospel today. For more than a century, many have been attracted to this man who invites us into his intimate relationship with his Beloved and pushes us to recognize, in every person, a brother or a sister in humanity.

On November 13, , the day of his beatification, thousands of pilgrims gathered around the one who is often called “Brother Charles”, the universal brother. They were able to express their joy at having chosen a spiritual guide that the Church recognizes.

Historical

In , the Charles de Foucau

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Charles de Foucauld

French explorer, geographer, linguist and Catholic saint (–)

Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand,^[2][3][4][5] (15 September – 1 December ), commonly known as Charles de Foucauld, was a French soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnographer, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Algeria. He was assassinated in His inspiration and writings led to the founding of a number of religious communities inspired by his example, such as the Little Brothers of Jesus.

Orphaned at the age of six, de Foucauld was brought up by his maternal grandfather, Colonel Beaudet de Morlet. He undertook officer training at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy. Upon graduating from the academy he opted to join the cavalry. Ordained in Viviers in ,^[6] he decided to settle in the Algerian Sahara at Béni Abbès. His ambition was to form a new congregation, but nobody joined him. Taking the religious nameCharles of Jesus, he lived with the Berbers, adopting a new apostolic approach, preaching not through sermons, but through his example.

On 1 December , de Foucauld was assassinated at his hermitage. He was quickly considered to be a martyr of faith^[7][8] and was t