Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
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FranceA French cavalry officer who traded the barracks for a hermitage in the Sahara, living alone among the Tuareg and Berbers with no converts, no congregation, murdered by bandits in 1916 — then became, a century later, the seed for multiple religious orders and a saint.
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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 bio…
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