Saint: what a journey for the reveler lieutenant who made the headlines of his time, and not by his military exploits.
A hundred years later, here he is elevated on the altars: holy, like Paul of Tarsus, Augustine, Francis of Assisi before him, all those men struck one day by grace, so many unworthy sons who have become pillars of the Catholic Church.
Some hundred years after his death, it is up to Pope Francis to proclaim the canonization.
This fiery life must please him: he already quoted Charles de Foucauld in his encyclical
Fratelli tutti
, counting him among the great contemporary figures of universal brotherhood.
More deeply, the hermit of Tamanrasset has something to seduce Francis with his radicalism: a man who renounces the easy life and tries to imitate the example of Jesus Christ as closely as possible, until he lowers himself and withdraws , what a figure!
Incomprehension of men, sign of God.
Foucauld chooses a ministry at the heart of what the pope calls the peripheries...
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