Saint
Saint Charles de Foucauld
- Country / origin
- France / Algeria
- Life
- 1858–1916
- Feast
- 1 December
- Canonised
- 2022
Awaiting theological review
Who was this?
A French officer and explorer who returned to the faith, became a priest and lived a hidden life of prayer and friendship among the Tuareg in the Sahara, where he was killed.
Patron of
- conversion
- the hidden life
- the desert
- fraternity
When to ask for intercession
- times of loneliness
- searching for a vocation
- conversion
- wanting a simple life centred on Jesus
A short prayer
Saint Charles de Foucauld, teach me to abandon myself into the Father's hands and to see every person as a brother or sister.
Written for Lumen as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
What are you living through today?
- Loneliness
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