About Albert Peyriguère
Albert Peyriguère (Trébons, 28 September 1883 – Casablanca, 26 April 1959) was a Catholic priest, hermit and ethnologist from Southern France. Following the example of Charles de Foucauld, he lived as a hermit in the Atlas mountains in Morocco. While the care for the local Berber population earned him their admiration, he became an expert on Berber languages and their culture. == Biography == === Early life === Albert Peyriguère was born as Jean-Marie Peyriguère on 28 September 1883 in Trébons, a small village close to Lourdes in the Hautes-Pyrénées department. His parents, Jean Peyriguère and Marie Bayle, were members of the working class and started calling him Albert at a young age. The family moved soon to Talence where Peyriguère attended school, served as an altar boy and developed a devotion to the Notre-Dame de Talence. After completing successfully school, he entered the major seminary of Bordeaux in autumn 1901 after turning 18. He was ordained priest in the chapel of the seminar on 8 December 1906, just a couple of days before the seminar was occupied by the French state according to the law on the Separation of the Churches and the State. After that, he studied in Paris and became a teacher at the newly founded Gratry school in Bordeaux. Peyriguère was mobilised in the first days of the First World War and assigned to the 234th infantry regiment as stretcher bearer and chaplain.
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