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Most of Évely's work, rather than the fruit of academic research, stems from preaching at conferences and retreats. Many of his listeners transcribed the text of talks to disseminate among their churches, often in carbon typescript or photocopies, long before the texts reached editors and printers.
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Three years later, at the age of 60, Évely married a longtime friend, Mary, with whom he set up a home in Piégros-la-Clastre, a small village in
Provence. There, he regained his preaching public, often including Protestants, in Alsace and Switzerland. In response to repeated requests, the Évely
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Between the professional affronts and his active life, Évely's health seriously deteriorated and he was directed to take a rest cure in the mountains in France, lasting several months. Upon completing his rest, instead of returning to
Belgium, he became an oblate at the Cistercian
112:Évely was a pedagogue of the spiritual life and at the same time a publishing success. Several of his works sold in the hundreds of thousands and were translated into 25 languages. In the 1960s one of his sermons was reproduced in its entirety in a film directed by
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became aware that his true vocation was that of an evangelist. Thus he became an itinerant preacher in southwest France, helping the spiritual revival of parishes and directing retreats. However, his bishop refused him the
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In the 1980s Evely felt his strength declining as his health waned, probably affected by a tropical disease contracted during a lecture tour in Africa. He died on 30 August 1985, at the age of 75.
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Ordained at 27, he was assigned to assist at a very poor rural school rather than, as he envisaged, as a professor at the
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who published several books about the spiritual life. Despite leaving the priesthood in 1967, and his subsequent marriage, he remained active as a spiritual leader.
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Louis Évely was born in
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L'Aube, a spiritual centre founded by Louis Evely and his wife Mary in 1982 (in French)
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