Charles de Foucauld was a modern man who imitated Jesus and lived like Jesus in our modern world.
None of his writings were published while he was alive, and he was not known to the world when he was alive.
Everything about him was posthumous, and yet many regard him as one of great spiritual figures of 20th century.
"By any conventional standard, his life(1858-1916) --soldier, explorer, monk, and ultimately desert hermit --
ended in failure." "He invites others to read the Gospel in a new way."
"Twenty years after his death his spiritual vision was taken up by Rene Voillaume and Madeleine Hutin,
founders respectively of the Little Brothers and the Little Sisters of Jesus, which has spread to the far corners
of the globe."
From the book, Charles De Foucauld, Essential Writings, by Robert Ellsberg,
Modern Spiritual Masters Series, 1999