Des missionnaires plongés dans la grande guerre 1914-1918
Paul Christophe - Collection L'histoire à vif
Résumé
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In 2008, 'La Société des Missions étrangères de Paris' celebrated its 350th anniversary. Falling just a few years before the centenary of WW1, it is an invitation to investigate the fate of those missionaries who were called up in 1914. Until the Great War was declared, they travelled to Asia without even thinking of a return journey. For many parents, their son's departure was an agonizing separation, very like an adieu. For those priests who were called up, abandoning their mission was a question of conscience: what would become of the neophytes they were in the process of evangelizing? How could they explain the reasons for their departure? Was it worthwhile travelling to a port and embarking on a long journey, since everyone was talking about a 'short' war? To know the reactions of these men embroiled in a conflict that seemed to be interminable, their letters to their superiors or to directors of the Seminary in Paris are a precious source. Through their correspondence, the reader discovers the real lives of those missionaries and seminarians who found themselves facing the experience of fighting and the horrors of war, exposed to the exaltation of a single moment or the tediousness of long, monotonous days, feeling the appeal of new adventure or nostalgia for their mission. This 'history of missionaries at war' - a sort of 'diary' written in a hundred voices - reveals all their rich humanity.
L'auteur - Paul Christophe
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Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Paul Christophe |
Collection | L'histoire à vif |
Parution | 07/06/2012 |
Format | 13.5 x 21.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 468g |
EAN13 | 9782204096881 |
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