Louis Massignon
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Louis Massignon was a French Catholic scholar of Islam and a pioneer of Catholic-Muslim mutual understanding. He was an influential figure in the twentieth century with regard to the Catholic Church's
People fasting against torture during the Algeria War, Paris, 1957 (Lanza del Vasto, Louis Massignon, and others).
Charles de Foucauld
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Charles de Foucauld, born as Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand, in religion Charles of Jesus, was a French monk, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sah
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…he was assisted in his encounter with God and in his conversion by the intercession of living and deceased friends, among them Joris-Karl Huysmans and Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916), who had also experienced God in a Muslim context. Thus, his conversion provided a firm basis for his lifelong association with the latter…
Charles of Jesus, c. 1907
De Foucauld's hermitage, built in 1911 on the Assekrem (2780 m)
Bordj of Tamanrasset, Algeria
Tomb of Charles de Foucauld in El Ménia, Algeria