Childhood

Pierre Goursat, one of principal the founder of the Communauté of Emmanuel was born on August 15th, 1914 in Paris. He will remain all his life there. Child, it loses his single brother to which it was very close.

Young man shining, it undertakes studies of Article His conversion to the faith Catholique is located at the 19 years age whereas it was neat for tuberculosis with the plate of ESA. He tells to have intended his brother to tell him " you became orgueilleux". He will say that these a few moments made it humble.

The time of formation

During the war, it met the cardinal Emmanuel Suhard, Archevêque of Paris, to which it became close. This one confirms it in its vocation of laic admirer devoted in the celibacy.

Engaged in the cultural world, there will remain marked by a very fragile health. It is devoted to the evangelization through the books, the reviews and the participation in the Catholic Circle of the Intellectuals. It was directed then towards the cinema. He became the friend and sometimes the adviser of several directors and exerted during ten years the function of secretary of the Catholic Office of the Cinema. In 1970, it takes its retirement in a very simple life.

The engagement and the foundation of Emmanuel

February 11th, 1972, forty people, with among them Pierre Goursat and Martine Catta, are joined together to hear a testimony and explanations of Xavier Pichon which returns from a voyage to the United States where he discovered the charismatic Renouveau. Later, they invite some people to come to request with them in Paris in the grace of the Revival. At the beginning, they are 5. One year later, they will be 500. Thus will be born the first steps from the Communauté of Emmanuel of which it will become the first regulator.

In 1986, the pope Jean-Paul II, in visit with Paray Monial, will say to Pierre Goursat " Thank you to have founded Emmanuel". Pierre Goursat dies on March 25th 1991 in the festival of the Annunciation. Its mass of burial takes place to the Église of the Holy Trinity (Paris) and is chaired by the cardinal Lustiger. It is buried in Paray-Le-Monial.

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