TAIZÉ FACTS // Brother Roger, who founded Taizé, was the youngest of nine children. He was born in Switzerland to a Swiss father and French mother. // Full name Roger Louis Schutz-Marsauche, he was greatly influenced by his grandmother’s tales of helping refugees during the First World War. // Following the Second World War, the monks received mainly orphans and former German prisoners into their community. // Pope John Paul II visited the Taizé community in 1986. In his address to young people, he described Taizé as a “spring of water”. // Brothers from Taizé have gone to live among the most oppressed and poorest people of the world. Today they work in Africa, Asia, North and South America. // In the community’s formative years, the monks set up a milk co-operative.
Ecumenism refers to efforts by Christians of different church traditions to develop closer relationships and better understandings.
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