Blessed Charles de Foucauld, desert hermit, inspiration for the Little Brothers and Little Sisters of Jesus, cited by Pope Francis in his new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, died Dec 1 1916.👇My edition of his writings, and a chapter in my book *A Living Gospel.* @OrbisBooks.
Charles de Foucauld, a French aristocrat and former military officer, recovered his Catholic faith—inspired in part by the Muslim piety he witnessed in N Africa. On pilgrimage to the Holy Land he vowed to emulate the witness of Jesus—a carpenter in Nazareth—...
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