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Saint Charles de Foucauld / The Gospel in the Land of Smiles

“Charles de Foucauld, Pilgrim of the Eternal” and the exhibition “The Gospel in the Land of Smiles”.

© Éditions Pygmalion / Gospel exhibition in the Land of Smiles

By: Genevieve Delrue

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World Religions - Sunday, May 15, 2022 - 11:10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Paris time

Murdered on December 1, 1916 in his hermitage in Tamanrasset, Brother Charles de Foucauld was canonized this Sunday (May 15, 2022) in Rome.

Alternately cavalry officer, explorer and geographer in Morocco, monk with the Trappists in Ardèche and the Holy Land, hermit in Béni-Abbès, then in the Great South of Algeria where he lived the last eleven years of his life alongside the Tuaregs , who was Charles de Foucauld?

It is to this question that the biography of 

For the Dominican brother

brand new

, Brother Charles de Foucauld understood that the meaning of his presence in the Algerian desert was encounter and not conversion.

Rare manuscripts, objects, paintings: the exhibition

recounts three and a half centuries of the presence of the Foreign Missions in Thailand.

It was in fact in the Kingdom of Siam that the great evangelizing adventure in Asia of the Society of Foreign Missions began in the 17th century.

Guided tour with historian

and

of the curator of the exhibition which is held rue du Bac, at the headquarters of the MEP, until the end of June 2022.

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