Albert Peyriguère

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Albert Peyriguère (born September 28, 1883 in Trébons , Hautes-Pyrénées , France, † April 26, 1959 in Casablanca ) was a Roman Catholic priest and hermit .

Life

When he was five years old, his family moved to the Bordeaux suburb of Talance . After school he entered the seminary in Bordeaux. Albert Peyriguère was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Bordeaux on December 8, 1906 . After a few years in school pastoral care and further studies, which he completed in 1909, he began with a dissertation on Bernhard von Clairvaux . However, at the request of his bishop, he did not complete this and instead worked in training at the Minor Seminary in Bordeaux. Due to injuries sustained as a medic during the First World War , he went to the mission to Tunis , Tunisia in 1920 . There he initially worked as a religion teacher and pastor. Triggered by the biography of René Bazin about Charles de Foucauld , he summed up how the decision P. to lead a solitary life in the desert de Foucauld. But first he had to leave Tunisia due to illness. In 1926 he came to Rabat in Morocco with a white father friend of his . While caring for the sick of a typhoid epidemic, he fell ill again and his friend died.

After his renewed recovery he was able to move into a hermitage in El Kbab , a village with around 1000 inhabitants in the Middle Atlas of Morocco in 1928 . In this area, which was normally not accessible to Europeans, he could consciously devote himself to the Berbers and Muslims and get to know them. He learned the Berber language and got close to them. Peyriguère wanted to “be Berbers with the Berbers”. In it he pursued de Foucauld's idea of ​​a “prémission”: “To inspire trust, to form friendship, to achieve trust, to be brother to each other.” He also gave medical advice as well as medicines, food and clothes to the poorest. On market days, up to 200 people came to receive his treatment. Politically, he also stood up for the interests of the Berbers and suffered some difficulties as a result.

Until his death he spent 35 years in his hermitage near the small village, which consisted of a prayer room and another room. After a stay in France in 1958, he fell ill. He finally died in a hospital in Casablanca at the age of 75.

Albert Peyriguère was buried at his place of work in El Kbab with great sympathy from the Christian and Muslim population. The attending physician Dr. Delanoë confirmed that his "physiognomy hardly differed from Berbers" and that he also showed the typical symptoms of the area.

Spirituality and aftermath

Albert Peyriguère was, in addition to his deep admiration for the spirituality of de Foucauld, Mathias Joseph Scheebens , whose book Mysteries of Christianity he read annually, and that of the Carmelite Elisabeth of the Trinity . The presence of Christ in the believer, which is impressively emphasized by both, leads through the life of the missionary to the presence of Christ in culture. As a connoisseur of Charles de Foucauld's theology, he supported the students from the St. Sulpice seminary around René Voillaume , from which the Little Brothers of Jesus emerged . Père Peyriguère is known to many through his spiritual letters. As a spiritual guide he was in correspondence with various French nuns. His letters were published after his death and also translated into German.

In July 2010, Father Peyriguère's bones were transferred to the Notre Dame de l'Atlas monastery in Midelt (Meknes region). A chapel is dedicated to him there. This place also commemorates the seven monks of Tibhirine who - like him - lived a Christian presence in Muslim areas.

Works (selection)

  • Albert Peyriguère: Moved by God. Letters from the leadership. Edited by Georges Gorrée, Volume 1, Lucerne 1963.
  • In the spirit of Charles de Foucauld. Mainz 1963.
  • Lord show me the way. Lucerne-Stuttgart 1966.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. Gisbert Greshake : Mission and Kenosis. A basic idea of ​​Albert Peyriguère. In: IKaZ 44 (2015), 258-265, 258.
  2. ^ René Bazin: Charles de Foucauld. German: The desert saint. 1921.
  3. ↑ Biography on the website of the Diocese of Rabat (French)
  4. ↑ a b c cf. Gisbert Greshake: Mission and Kenosis. A basic idea of ​​Albert Peyriguère. In: IKaZ 44 (2015), 258-265, 259.
  5. ↑ Georges Gorrée : Life of Father Albert Peyriguère. In: Georges Gorrée: Au delà du Père de Foucauld - Le Père Peyriguère. Paris 1960, p. 13.
  6. ^ Charles de Foucauld: Letter to H. Castries dated June 17, 1904, quoted from: Gisbert Greshake: Mission und Kenosis. A basic idea of ​​Albert Peyriguère. In: IKaZ 44 (2015), 258-265, 259.
  7. ↑ cf. HH: Le Père Peyriguère. In: Ètudes (1945), 122-123, 122. available online (French)
  8. ↑ cf. Georges Gorrée: Au delà du Père de Foucauld. Le Père Peyriguère. Paris 1960.
  9. ↑ Tobias Mayer: Kenosis: The power of impotence. Editorial, in: IKaZ 44 (2015) 221-223, 222.
  10. ↑ cf. Gisbert Greshake: Mission and Kenosis. A basic idea of ​​Albert Peyriguère. In: IKaZ 44 (2015), 258-265, 264.
  11. ↑ cf. Gisbert Greshake: Mission and Kenosis. A basic idea of ​​Albert Peyriguère. In: IKaZ 44 (2015), 258-265, 261f.
  12. ↑ cf. Albert Peyriguère: Moved by God. Letters from the leadership. Edited by Georges Gorrée, Volume 1, Lucerne 1963.
personal data
SURNAME Peyriguère, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Catholic priest and hermit
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Trébons , Hautes-Pyrénées department , France
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1959
Place of death Casablanca