Peter Maurin
French social activist and theologian
Peter Maurin was a French Catholic social activist, theologian, and De La Salle Brother who founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933 with Dorothy Day.
Maurin expressed his philosophy through short pieces of verse that became known as Easy... Wikipedia
Born: May 9, 1877, Saint-Julien-du-Tournel, Mont Lozère et Goulet, France
Died: May 15, 1949 (age 72 years), Orange County, NY
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Peter Maurin was born in the small village of Oulet in France, the firstborn of 22 children. In 1893 he went to Paris and joined the Christian Brothers.
I first met Peter in December, 1932, when George Shuster, then editor of The Commonweal, later president of Hunter College, urged him to get into contact ...
Maurin was born to a large, Catholic, peasant family in the south of France in 1877. From the age of fifteen, his schooling was done primarily within the ...