Charles De Foucauld / Jean-Jacques Antier ; with an introduction by David Pinault ; translated by Julia Shirek Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antier, Jean-Jacques, 1928- author.

Contributor:

Smith, Julia Shirek, translator.

Standardized Title:

Charles De Foucauld. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Foucauld, Charles de, Saint, 1858-1916.

Foucauld, Charles de.

Hermits--Algeria--Biography.

Hermits.

Foucauld, Charles de, 1858-1916.

Algeria.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

359 pages, [15] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2022]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"Antier ponders Foucauld's writings summarizing the young wanderer's spiritual condition: "Who could quench his thirst for the absolute, which felt to him like a deepening void, a chasm, a summons?"6 Ultimately this was a summons that led the bemedaled voyager back to Christianity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Tortured Childhood (18 58-1876)

2. Scandalous Officer (1876-1881)

3. Exploring Morocco (1882-1885)

4. Conversion (1886-1888)

5. Toward Giving All (1888-1890)

6. Cistercian Monk (1890-1896)

7. Rome (1896-1897)

8. Gardener for the Poor Clares (1897-1900)

9. Priest ofjesus Christ (1900-1901)

10. Hermit Priest at Beni Abbes (1901-1902)

11. Saharan Pacification Tour (1903-1904)

12. Tamanrasset (1905)

13. Hermit of the Tuareg (1905-1908)

14. "Still Alone" (1908-1909)

15. Solitude on Assekrem (1911-1914)

16. Threat from the East (1915-1916)

17. "Unless the Grain of Wheat Dies" (1916)

Afterword

Appendices

1. Charles de Foucauld's Spiritual Family

2. Chronology

3. Father de Foucauld's Prayer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781621645153

1621645150

OCLC:

1331609313