Charles de Foucauld, a French aristocrat and former military officer, recovered his Catholic faith—inspired in part by the Muslim piety he witnessed in N Africa. On pilgrimage to the Holy Land he vowed to emulate the witness of Jesus—a carpenter in Nazareth—...
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who embodied the gospel before announcing it in words. “The whole of our lives should cry the agospel from the rooftops...Not by our words but by our lives.” He lived as a desert hermit in Algeria as a “little brother of Jesus” until he was killed by Tuareg rebels on 12/1 1916.
