# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:20:53.064Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Charles Eugène de Foucauld was orphaned at six and raised by his grandfather, a colonel. He trained at Saint-Cyr, joined the 2nd Hussar Regiment, then left the military to become a Trappist monk. Ordained a priest in 1901, he settled at Béni Abbès in the Algerian Sahara, hoping to found a new congregation, but no one came. Taking the name Charles of Jesus, he moved deeper into the desert to Tamanghasset, living with the Berbers and preaching through example rather than words — explorer, geographer, ethnographer, hermit. On 1 December 1916, a bandit killed him at his hermitage. René Bazin's biography turned him into an object of veneration; religious congregations eventually formed in his wake. His beatification began in 1927, and Pope Francis canonized him in 2022.