FOCH, GERMAIN. - Jesuit spiritual writer, b. 8 Oct. 1854 at Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées), d. in Paris on 9 June 1920, brother of the Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch. Having entered the Society of Jesus at the age of 18, F. was distinguished by nobility and frankness of character, striving indefatigably to attain religious perfection.

He made his third year under the guidance of the servant of God Paul Ginhac at Mourville; then he passed through the offices of master of novices (1888-92), of spiritual father of the young confreres at Uclès in Spain (1892-97) and at Gemert in Holland (1902-1908), with an interval as rector at Vals. In his last years he devoted himself to the confessional and to spiritual direction in the residences of Tournas, Pau, Toulouse, and Montpellier. Under his guidance distinguished religious and the spiritual writer Raoul Pius were formed.

He left several ascetical little works, promoting the life of union with God present in the soul of the soul, generous charity, the peace and joy of the spirit, the practice of the evangelical beatitudes, and the love of the Cross: Paix et joie, L'amour de la Croix, La vie cachée, L'holocauste (Italian trans. by C. Testore, Turin 1932-38).

Bibliography

BIBL.: R. de Sinéty, Le p. F., Toulouse 1931.

Arnaldo M. Lanz

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Foch, Germain

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