par admin2125 | Juil 8, 2024 | Français, Récits
Giorgio La Pira, né le 9 janvier 1904 à Pozzallo en Sicile, est un universitaire et homme politique italien du XXème siècle. Elu maire de Florence de 1951 à 1957 et de 1961 à 1965, il avait commencé sa vie politique en 1946 chez les démocrates-chrétiens à la fin de la...
par admin2125 | Mar 14, 2023 | Anglais, Récits
“I want to accustom all the inhabitants, Christians, Muslims, Jews and idolaters, to looking at me as their brother, the universal brother” Charles de Foucauld Some excerpts from Cardinal Aveline’s meditation given during the prayer vigil for the canonization of...
par admin2125 | Mar 14, 2023 | Anglais, Récits
« Portrait d’Abdelkader » de M.-É. Godefroid (musée du Luxembourg, Paris) A pioneer of dialogue between the two shores, the Emir Abdelkader is a famous figure in the opposition to the French occupation in Algeria and hero of the first Algerian nation. This...
par admin2125 | Mar 14, 2023 | Anglais, Récits
The beginning of a long alliance between France and the Middle East François 1er and Soliman conclude in the 16th century a historic agreement, one of the first across the Mediterranean between a Christian king and a Muslim sovereign. This agreement, if it was mainly...
par admin2125 | Mar 14, 2023 | Anglais, Récits
meet the Sultan of Egypt Saint Francis before the Sultan al-Kâmil (Trial by fire). Giotto di Bondone 1295. Fresco in the Basilica of Saint Francis, Italy This meeting took place in Damietta in 1219 in the middle of the fifth crusade. In this plain of Egypt, two armies...
par admin2125 | Mar 14, 2023 | Anglais, Récits
Moses Maimonides or Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon is one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages, who sought to reconcile the thought of Aristotle and biblical revelation. Great Jewish intellectual of the Mediterranean, his thought enriched by Greek, Muslim and...
