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Brother Roger; Obituary.(Brother Roger, prior of Taize)(Roger Schutz)(Obituary)
The Economist (US)
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August 27, 2005
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Roger Schutz, founder of Taize, died on August 16th, aged 90
DEEP quiet was what first drew Roger Schutz to Taize. The young Swiss theology student, climbing off his bicycle one summer day in 1940 after riding a strenuous 70 miles north from Geneva, found himself in the wooded hills and valleys of la France profonde. A few sandstone houses, some unlived in, made up the village. The road was unsurfaced, and there was no telephone; the world did not come through here. No priest had been resident since the Revolution. He might have pushed on, but an old woman offered ...
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