Marie-benoit de bourg d'ire (1895-1990)
Gérard Cholvy - Collection Histoire
Résumé
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In 1895, Pierre Péteul was born into a family of millers, in the heart of Anjou, in the Bourg d'Iré, where the Count of Falloux's château stands. Difficulties obliged the family to move to Angers. In 1907, the boy declared he would "go anywhere at all in order to become a priest" because the diocese had too many vocations. He was obliged to move again, to Belgium this time, to train with the Capuchin brothers. In 1913, after completing excellent studies, Pierre, now Brother Marie-Benoît, was ordained a priest. From 1915 to 1919, as a stretcher bearer, he was reputed for 'his never-failing courage'. His studies in Rome drew attention to the young priest. At the Collège international Saint-Laurent de Brindes until 1940, he was well-placed to hear the warning bells of anti-Semitism: his studies and his knowledge of Biblical Hebrew had given him a privileged insight to Judaism. So in Marseilles (1940), in Nice, then in Rome (1943-1944), he never hesitated to do his duty, "disregarding all danger" (Rabbi Elio Toaff). He was well aware that pure speculation- one of his gifts- did not entirely correspond to the Rule of Franciscan perfection. The "Father of the Jews" who became "Padre Benedetto" saved some 4500 foreign and Italian Jews, working in close collaboration with courageous Jews such as Bass, Donati, Kasztersztein, Schwamm, Cantoni, Sorani, Giuseppe Levi... In the middle of the 1950s, the Italian Province of Foggia could boast the two most famous living Capuchin friars in the world: Padre Pio and Father Marie-Benoît. Father Marie-Benoît was one of the architects of a rapprochement between Jews and Christians, with Edmond Fleg and Jules Isaac. Vatican II did not come as a surprise to this precursor of the theology of filiation, which was to replace a theology of substitution. In 1967, he was named 'Righteous among the nations', one of the first Frenchman to receive the honour, and in 1984, he was awarded the insignia of the Légion d'honneur from the hands of Rabbi Kaplan. He had already received the Croix de Chevalier in Rome from Jacques Maritain in 1946. Like Saint Francis with the Muslims, he was the architect of a peaceful dialogue with the Jews and like the founder of the Frères Mineurs, he lived as a free man until 1990, working for what he considered to be "essential", the aim Saint Bonaventure attributed to theology: 'Ut boni fiamus', 'that we may become good'.
L'auteur - Gérard Cholvy
Autres livres de Gérard Cholvy
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Gérard Cholvy |
Collection | Histoire |
Parution | 09/12/2010 |
Nb. de pages | 418 |
Format | 15 x 23.6 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 663g |
EAN13 | 9782204092197 |
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