Peter Maurin

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Background

Peter Maurin came into the world on May 9, 1877 in Outlet, a village in the Languedoc region of southern France. His devotion to religion came much earlier, as he joined the Christian Brothers, a teaching order which stressed simplicity of life, piety, and service to the poor [1]. After leaving the order he took part in a Catholic movement called Le Sillon in France. The idea of this movement was that with strong Christian committment, love, responsibilty, and action for social justice, problems would be gone. Christian love would spread all over [1].