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I am going to begin to repackage my longer translations and groups of translations as handsome PDFs, released on Scribd.  These will provide for easy downloading and reading.  The first such release is a repack of my two-part translation of St. Charles de Foucauld's Meditations on Genesis .  The original posts can be found here: Part I , Part II . EDIT: Direct download can be found here . Scribd link: https://www.scribd.com/document/703670637/Charles-de-Foucauld-Meditations-on-Genesis Internet Archive mirror: https://archive.org/details/charles-de-foucauld-meditations-on-genesis   Translation ©2024.  Licensed via CC BY-NC.   Feel free to redistribute non-commercially, as long as credit is given to the translator.

    Introduction St. Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) was a French cavalry soldier before deciding to resign from the military in order to go explore Morocco.  After publishing a well-received book about his travels, he returned to France and rekindled his childhood Catholic faith, deciding to join the Trappists in 1890.  His time with the Trappists led him to Syria, but he eventually left the order in order to become a hermit, in 1897.  After being a porter for Poor Clares in Nazareth and Jerusalem, he returned to France for ordination in 1901, then headed back to Africa, this time Algeria, to continue this eremitic life.  Though he hoped to attract others and form a community, none came.  Instead, he remained a hermit, living among the Tuareg people of Algeria, collecting their poems and writing a dictionary of their language.  A bandit raid on his hermitage--considered a martyrdom--claimed his life.  After his death, his writi...

    Introduction St. Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) was a French cavalry soldier before deciding to resign from the military in order to go explore Morocco.  After publishing a well-received book about his travels, he returned to France and rekindled his childhood Catholic faith, deciding to join the Trappists in 1890.  His time with the Trappists led him to Syria, but he eventually left the order in order to become a hermit, in 1897.  After being a porter for Poor Clares in Nazareth and Jerusalem, he returned to France for ordination in 1901, then headed back to Africa, this time Algeria, to continue this eremitic life.  Though he hoped to attract others and form a community, none came.  Instead, he remained a hermit, living among the Tuareg people of Algeria, collecting their poems and writing a dictionary of their language.  A bandit raid on his hermitage--considered a martyrdom--claimed his life.  After his death, his writi...