In 1940, during the war, a young man sits alone in the small village of Taize and is hiding refugees, including Jews. Today is a community known worldwide. It receives tens of thousands of young people from all countries..

In 1940, during the war, a young man sits alone in the small village of Taize and is hiding refugees, including Jews. Today is a community known worldwide. It receives tens of thousands of young people from all countries. It hosts meetings on all continents and is present alongside the world’s poorest.

Brother Roger: We can build that from what we are, with our limitations and our weaknesses. God deposited a treasure of the Gospel in earthen vessels that we are. The extraordinary spiritual journey of this man is closely interwoven with the unique adventure of a Christian community in the twentieth century.

The French defeat of 1940 had left the country split into two zones, one occupied, the other free. Refugees, especially Jews, were trying to flee and hide in the unoccupied zone. Roger felt impelled to leave for France, to be near poor. He knew he had to live and pray at the heart of the distress, for the birth of what he had intuition. I wanted to trade in some way to measure myself by myself: am I able to keep myself in the middle of one of the biggest events of the time.

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