Charles de Foucauld

Saint Charles de Foucauld was a French priest, hermit, and mystic who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara Desert. Born into a wealthy aristocratic family in 1858, he lived a dissolute youth before a profound conversion. He spent his final years in Tamanrasset, Algeria, living a life of prayer, poverty, and service. He was assassinated in 1916. He was canonized in 2022.