Born in 1905 in Versailles, into a large and deeply Christian family. One of the first disciples of Charles de Foucauld whom he had discovered when he was about 17 upon reading the book by Rene Bazin. His vocation also dated back to that time.
Love your neighbor, that through this love you can come to love God. The one kind of love does not go without the other; to grow in one is to grow in the other. How does one acquire the love of God? By practicing charity toward human beings.