Joseph Folliet

Cordial militant with the multiple gifts, Joseph Folliet (1903-1972) is a figure of the French Catholicism of the 20th century.

Biography.

Joseph Folliet was born in 1903, in the district of Cross-Russet-red, with Lyon. He is the single child of a family of the lower middle class, fundamentally catholic. His/her father, Silk worker become manufacturing of silk trade, would like to see his son succeeding to him. At 20 years, Joseph is received first at the School of weaving.

But its life rocks when it meets Marius Gonin, founder of the social Chronique of France and one of the promoters of the social Semaines of France, which initiates it with the apostolate and the social action. The policy also attracts it: Folliet adheres to the Ligue of the young Republic of the Christian-Democrat Marc Sangnier. It ties strong friendships there and taken there its first steps of Journaliste. He attends the father Laurent Remilleux, priest Lyons whose liturgical and Community experiments prepare the ecumenical IIe council of the Vatican.

At the time of a voyage to Sitted, Folliet discovers the message franciscain and founds into 1927 the Compagnons of Saint François, youth movement working for peace and the friendship between the people, in the line of Sangnier. It reveals there its qualities of organizer and chansonnier, whom it puts at the services incipient catholic youth movements, the Christian working Jeunesse (JOC), the Jeunesse Christian coed (JEC) and the Christian agricultural Jeunesse (JAC). It delivers its experiment of the road and of the outdoor in a Master delivers, the Spirituality of the Road , which meets many people.

Folliet wishes to become priest, but Mgr Verdier, superior of the seminar of the catholic Institute, persuades it that it will render better services in the laic life. Folliet then carries out its military service in Tunisia where he sensitizes himself with the questions raised by the Colonisation, to which he will devote two theses of doctorate.

This engaged Christian, who hesitates between several ways, enters in journalism to the call of Dominican the Bernadot, founder of the weekly magazine Seven . He writes the majority of the leading articles of this press agency which gives a Christian point of view on the topicality and tries to dissociate the Catholicism of the Conservatisme and the Nationalisme, attracting himself the lightnings of the right-hand sides and the French Action. With the disappearance of the title, he becomes editor association of the weekly magazine Temps Present , crossroads of catholic intelligentsia. He collaborates in it with François Mauriac, Stanislas Fumet and Jacques Maritain. In 1938, it gives up a Parisian career to take the succession of Marius Gonin, recently disappeared, as director of the Social Chronique of France. It modernizes the review of the old Lyons house, which becomes under its direction a body of spiritual resistance to the racist theses and anti-semites propagated by the fascistic powers.

The war comes. Captive fact in 1940, Folliet is released two years later for health reasons. It joined Resistance then, taking part in the diffusion of Christian Témoignage and engaging in the Mitterrand network of the prisoners of war.

With the release, it founds the weekly magazine the catholic Life illustrated with Georges Hourdin and cooperates actively with the birth of the movement Pax Christi of which he will be vice-president. During the War of Algeria, it militates for the respect for human dignity and denounces torture. In 1962, it is named expert near the ecumenical IIe council of the Vatican. In 1968, it can finally carry out its wish to become priest and receives the sacerdotal ordination of the hands of Mgr Ancel, superior of the Institute of Prado to which it will belong until the end of his life.

Sociologist, essay writer, poet, Folliet are the author of 65 works of which its autobiography the Firm matter , published in 1958.

Sources:

Selection of its work.

  • right of colonization: study of social and international morals , Lyon, G. Nephew, 1932.

  • forced labor with the colonies , Paris, Editions of the Stag, 1934.
  • the mystery of François Saint and his companion: Christian and modern drama , Paris, Spes, 1934.
  • the spirituality of the road , Paris, Bloud and Gay, 192p, 1936 (republished into 1942,1947).
  • Moral social , Paris, Bloud and Gay, 1937.
  • songs of the black sun: poems of war and captivity , Paris, Editions of time present, 1945.
  • Christians with the crossroads , Lyon, the social Chronicle, 1947.
  • Christians with the crossroads , volume 2, Presence of the Church , Lyon, the social Chronicle, 1949.
  • the advent of Prométhée: test of sociology of our time , Lyon, the social Chronicle, 1950.
  • the merry philosophy of the gones , Lyon, the social Chronicle, 1954 (republication in 1998)
  • War and peace in Algeria: reflections of a free man , Lyon, the social Chronicle, 1958.
  • firm matter: AD usum privatum pro amicis meis , Lyon, the social Chronicle, 1958.
  • Adam and Eve: humanism and sexuality , Lyon, the social Chronicle, 1965.
  • Invitation with the Joy , Paris, the Centurion, 1968.
  • Christians with the crossroads , volume 3, the time of the anguish and research , Lyon, the social Chronicle, 1971.
  • sun of the evening: to age in beauty , Paris, the Centurion, 1972.

Academic works and testimonys.

  • Jean Barber, Joseph Folliet: 1903-1972 , Paris, Editions S.O.S, 1982.

  • Antoine Deléry, Joseph Folliet (1903-1972). Course of a catholic militant , Paris, Editions of the Stag, 484p, 2005.
  • Andre Soutenon, To act with Joseph Folliet , Lyon, the social Chronicle, 122p, 2004.
  • Pierre Tillet, Joseph Folliet our friend: companion of Saint-François 1927, successor of Marius Gonin to the social chronicle of France 1937, priest of Prado March 19th, 1968 , Lyon, the social Chronicle, 1973.

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