The reappropriation of the Universal Manifesto, founding text of the movement, is at the heart of the commemoration of its launch by Abbé Pierre fifty years ago in the Swiss capital. "Our Swiss friends have awoken us, it's as if we were sleeping", admits Patrick Atohoun, Chair of Emmaus International.
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Fifty years after Abbé Pierre’s appeal founding the international Emmaus movement, companions of the Swiss Confederation are preparing to receive guests from around the globe for this celebration.
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Thomas Fraisse is the author of a commented biography on Abbé Pierre which was published in 2017. In 'L’abbé Pierre, l’amour…la colère' ['Abbé Pierre, love...anger'] Mr Fraisse, who has a background in philosophy, deciphers Abbé Pierre's thinking. Mr Fraisse first became interested in the founder of Emmaus in his teenage years.
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Frédérique Weixler, the founder of the Emmaus Friends Committee in Rambervilliers, has been committed to the Movement since 1984 and was initially drawn in by the message of the Universal Manifesto. Frédérique was the treasurer of Emmaus International in 2007, at the time of Abbé Pierre’s death.
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