Word: foucauld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explanation. "We are searching for our future home," replied Sister Marie Aline serenely. "But it is not up to us to decide exactly where we should settle. Jesus will let us know." She explained that the principal rule of their order, inspired by the French priest Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) is simply "Live and work among the humble...
Sahara Parish. Still restless, he dropped in on an abbé of his acquaintance for advice. "Kneel and confess!" thundered the abbé. To his own surprise, Foucauld did. "As soon as I believed that there was a God," he wrote to a friend, "I realized that I could not do otherwise than live for Him." At the age of 31, he entered the Trappist order...
...Foucauld was something of a problem monk. Postponing his ordination as a priest, he spent three years as a menial for an abbess of a convent at Nazareth...
...spells, he traveled endlessly about the desert, often acting as chaplain for French troops and walking while they rode camels. On one such caravan trip, a fierce sandstorm blotted up all water holes within the radius of a four-day march. When a brackish little mudhole was finally found, Foucauld said his rosary and made no effort to drink until forced to do so. "Christ was much more thirsty on the cross!" he explained...
...impress the Tuareg. They called him the Great White Marabout (holy man), and kissed the hem of his robe. But by the middle of World War I, a group of fanatic Moslems, incited by the Turks, had marked him for capture. A native trusted by Abbé de Foucauld decoyed him from the new French fort at Tamanrasset. Grilled by his captors, he prayed in silence, made no resistance, and said only: "Baghi n'mout-This is the hour of my death." Shortly after, his chief captor put a carbine muzzle against Foucauld's temple and pulled...