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God Exists I Have Met Him
Translated
By JF Harwood Stevenson
From
The autobiographical work of the French Academician
Andre Frossard.
André Frossard , French journalist and essayist, was born
on 14th January
1915, the son of Louis-Oscar Frossard, one of the historic founders
of the French Communist Party of which he was the first General Secretary and a
leading figure for 31 years. His parents
raised him an atheist. On 8th
July 1935, when he was 20 years old, a journalist in Paris, he went out to dine
with a friend who stopped for a brief visit to a chapel, leaving Frossard
outside. It belonged to nuns of the religious order known as L’Adoration
Reparatrice . Bored, Frossard went in to find his friend. There he had an
experience of the presence of God that turned him instantly and irrevocably
into a Roman Catholic. During his distinguished career, he became a close
friend of Pope John Paul II and was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1987.
He died in Versailles
on 2nd February
1995.
