Charles de foucauld biography of mahatma

1. A child from a Christian home (1858 to 1873)

Charles was born in Strasbourg, France on September 15 1858 and was baptized two days after his birth.

“My God, we should all sing your mercies: Son of a holy mother, I learned from her to know you, to love you and to pray to you.

Was not my first memory the prayer she made me recite morning and evening: ‘My God, bless father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, grandmother Foucauld and my little sister’?...”

But his mother, father and paternal grandmother all died in 1864. The grandfather took the two children, Charles (6 yrs) and Marie (3 yrs) into his home.

“I always admired the great intelligence of my grandfather whose infinite tenderness enveloped my childhood and youth with an atmosphere of love, whose warmth I still can feel.”

On April 28 1872, Charles made his first Holy Communion.

He was confirmed the same day.

2. A young man in a world without God (1874 to 1876)

Charles was intelligent KEY BIOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF CHARLES DE FOUCAULD NAK