Christian feast day: Charles de Foucauld

Charles de Foucauld

French explorer, geographer, linguist and Catholic saint (1858–1916)

Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand,, commonly known as Charles de Foucauld, was a French soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnographer, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Algeria. He was murdered in 1916. His inspiration…