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A translation of Charles de Foucauld's life
- Charles de Foucauld: Paris in 1886.
- A young man can consistently be encountered in several churches of the city with a quiet strange prayer on his lips: “My God, if you exist, please let me recognize you!” This young man, Charles de Foucauld, descended from an aristocratic house and grew up in an religious unconcerned milieu after his parent's death.
- He chose the military career and developed at the same time to a slob rushing into several delights.
- But all these things didn't conformed to him, so that he often felt an interior emptiness.
- A military mission in the Algerian desert changed his life.
- Above all the sight of praying Muslims impressed him deeply.
- After a adventurous expedition through Morocco, for that the ambitious officer got an high award, he came back to Paris.
- Physically he was a famous and acclaimed explorer but interiorly he was agitated and full of questions.
- In a church he was requested by a priest to confess and to put his life into God's hands.
- Charles was deeply impressed by this experience and found the faith in God.
- Because he was always going the whole hog he wanted to live completely for God.
- The big discovery of his life was the secret of God's incarnation: The great God made himself little to be verge on the people.
- As a result Charles wanted to imitate Christ’s' poor and concealed life: Firstly as a Trappist, then as a hermit in Nazareth and finally as a “monk and missionary” in the desert oft Algeria.
- He ached to announce the evangelism of God's love but this announcement should happen less through words than through a concentrated life with the poor.
- He spent the last 15 years of his life together with the Tuareg-Clan; He took this clan in his heart, has studied their language was regarded as a saint by the Muslims.
- During the chaos of World War I many riots occurred in the South of the Sahara, in which Charles de Foucauld got shot by an agitated Bedouin.
- He couldn't see his dream – the foundation of a new monastery – coming true.
- The moribund grain of wheat though that is falling into the ground, brings great fruit.
- Many years after his death the people felt inspired by his exemplary life followed by many foundations of new monasteries, which owe the “little brother” Charles their origin.
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