by Gianni ValenteOrléans (Agenzia Fides) - "A Christian child", wrote Charles Péguy, "is nothing but a child to whom the childhood of Jesus has been presented a thousand times before his eyes". He, the great French poet who was able to narrate and confess with unparalleled intimacy the occurrence of the Christian mystery in the heart of "Christian" modernity, was born in Orléans exactly 150 years ago, on January 7, 1873. He opened his eyes in a world where the works and days of the men and women of the time still appear to be sprinkled with traces and moods of French Christianity, made up of poor people "who stuffed chairs with the same spirit with which they sculpted their cathedrals".
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