This article is taken from the
Figaro Hors-série "Charles de Foucauld, a voice in the desert", find in this
160-page issue the ardent life of Charles de Foucauld, undisciplined soldier, explorer in Morocco, struck down by grace to the point of become a missionary monk among the Tuaregs, assassinated in 1916 by Islamists.
This man of God is canonized by the Catholic Church on May 15, 2022.
Figaro Special issue "Charles de Foucauld, a voice in the desert" Le Figaro
“
S
ine sanguine, non fit remissio.
The parallel between the sacrifice of the soldier and that of Christ on the cross that each Mass celebrates, “
unbloody renewal of the sacrifice of the Cross
”, is a commonplace in French memory, especially during the hecatombs of the Great War.
Psichari, grandson of Renan, convert, officer and Dominican tertiary fallen in Belgium in August 1914;
Péguy, mowed down in Villeroy on September 5, so many grains of the same string that we unwind to Charles de Foucauld, assassinated in Tamanrasset on December 1, 1916. The latter is certainly not…
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