Louis Paves

Louis Dalle is a French bishop. He was born on April 27th, 1922 in Finieyrols (common of Prinsuéjols in Lozere) and deceased on May 9th, 1982, in a tragedy accident of bus on the road of Arequipa to Ayaviri with the Peru.

At the time of the Second world war, it is interned with the camp of Buchenwald for ten months. In 1947, after being ordered priest, it leaves to Peru as a missionary. He is established prelate of Ayaviri, by Mgr. Rodriguez, archbishop of Arequipa, on December 19th, 1971, post that it will occupy until his death in 1982.

Childhood and Schooling

It is resulting from a family of 15 children of which 7 will be priests or monk.

The hell of Buchenwald

The ten months that it will pass to the camp of Buchenwald, in the Nazi Germany, him will make it possible to be devoted to help the others, often with the detriment of its own health.

When it is released by the allied forces, its health condition is extremely serious. This episode deeply marked its life, as testifies these some sentences to them on the hell to Buchenwald:

“It is a grace to return from Buchenwald… larger still to be there entered…”
“I suffered so much than I then to support to see suffering the others…”

Tops of Peru

Bibliographical references

Louis Paves, a free man , Gabriel Campredon, 1984 (5th edition in 2002)
Louis Dalle, a free man Pierre Dhombre (author) and Jaime Marzal Canos (illustrations), a cartoon resulting from the book

External bonds

Page devoted to Louis Paves on the site of the Congregation of the Crown-Hearts of Picpus: http://sacrescoeurspicpus.free.fr/htm/pdalle.htm
Nouvelle page: http://www.ssccpicpus.fr/article.asp?contenu_ssrub=louis+dalle&contenu_rub=FIGURES+PICPUCIENNES
Official site of the book " Louis Paves, a man libre"

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