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...their time between working on assembly lines and learning the sociology of the factory. The spirit of the worker-priests lives on in the Anglican priests of the Sheffield Industrial Mission, the Japanese Christian industrial evangelists, and in Roman Catholicism's Little Brothers of Charles de Foucauld, laymen under vows of poverty who "shout the Gospel with their lives" in the slums of Paris, Buenos Aires and Santiago...
...them, this sudden, senseless death in the desert was an end for which he was prepared. Maurice Tourvieille, 25, was a Little Brother of Jesus, and such a manner of dying is neither unexpected nor direly feared among the followers of Pere Foucauld, a martyr who one day may be accounted one of the saints of the 20th century...
Charles-Eugene, Vicumte de Foucauld (TIME, May 4, 1953), grew to man's estate in a manner far from saintly. Born in Strasbourg in 1858 to a rich, aristocratic family, young Foucauld awed his classmates at St. Cyr and at cavalry school with his man-of-the-worldly ways. Wrote future General Victor d'Urbal: "Anyone who has not seen Foucauld in his room, in white flannel pajamas, comfortably ensconced on a chaise longue or a fine armchair, eating delicious foie gras washed down with an excellent cham pagne, reading Aristophanes in a de luxe edition . . . cannot form...
...Gallant Name. In a single year Cadet Foucauld spent 21 days in simple arrest, 45 days in disciplinary arrest; he graduated 87th in a class of 87. He was cashiered from his regiment for taking his mistress Mimi along with him to Algeria. But later, when his old outfit, the 4th Hussars, ran into sticky fighting against the Arabs. Foucauld tossed Mistress Mimi aside, wangled reinstatement, and made a gallant name for himself. He never went back to his foie gras and champagne. Instead, at 29. he returned to the church, joined the Trappists, then decided that the Trappist austerities...
Imitation of Christ. Pere Foucauld had dreamed of founding a religious order, but he died alone, without baptizing more than three or four converts in his entire life. In 1933 five students in the seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux decided to found an order based on his austere rule of "extreme poverty in everything." In Algeria, on the edge of the Sahara at El-Abiodh-Sidi-Cheikh, the first novitiate of the Petits Freres de Jesus was opened. Six years later an order of women, the Petites Soeurs de Jesus, was founded...