Saint Charles de Foucauld

Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916) was a French cavalry officer who lost his faith as a young man. After exploring Morocco he returned to the Church in 1886, became a Trappist monk, then a priest, and settled among the Tuareg people of the Algerian Sahara, where he wrote a Tuareg dictionary. He was killed at his hermitage in Tamanrasset on December 1, 1916, and canonized in 2022.

His spirituality of hidden, simple presence inspired many religious families, including the Little Brothers and Little Sisters of Jesus.