Peter Maurin
French Catholic activist (1877–1949) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peter Maurin (French: [moʁɛ̃]; May 9, 1877 – May 15, 1949) was a French Catholic social activist, theologian, and De La Salle Brother who founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933 with Dorothy Day.
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Born | Pierre Joseph Orestide Maurin (1877-05-09)May 9, 1877 |
Died | May 15, 1949(1949-05-15) (aged 72) Orange County, New York, US |
Resting place | Middle Village, Queens County, New York, US |
Nationality | French |
Other names | Aristide Pierre Maurin |
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Known for | Co-founding the Catholic Worker |
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Maurin expressed his philosophy through short pieces of verse that became known as Easy Essays.[1] Influenced by the contemporary work of G. K. Chesterton and Vincent McNabb,[2] he was one of the foremost promoters of the back-to-the-land movement and of Catholic distributism in the United States.[3] He was also influenced by Peter Kropotkin, an anarchist.[4][5]