Charles de Foucauld is a name to many. He is known as a man bold and turbulent in his pursuit oi a life clearly destined to be one of brilliant uselessness. and who then turned to God and died for Him. He had been taught the faith as a child but it had not caught fire, and was not to do so until after his return in the 1880s from an exploratory expedition to Morocco. Then, as he says, 'the moment I realised that God existed, I knew I could not do otherwise than to live for Him alone'. What had happened to him had happened to many others, such as St. Paul after Damascus and St. Ignatius after Pamplona, lives that up to those two points had been quite as tempestuous in the pursuit of goals that the gift of discernment showed up as wrong or worthless. Charles de Foucauld's subsequent course was that of a series of steps towards an ever greater simplicity and unobtrusiveness: believing that to love was to imitate God, he wanted to live like Jesus at Nazareth. Finally, in 1916, the founder of the Little Brothers of Jesus, who during his life had made not one single convert, was killed by a Touareg Arab outside his desert home. This book by the Prior General of the Little Brothers of Jesus contains selections from his earlier book of the same title and provides a study of the founder and of the Nazareth-centered spirit of the religious life he envisaged.