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Peter Maurin (May 9, 1877 – May 15, 1949) was a Catholic social activist who founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933 with Dorothy Day. Maurin expressed his ideas through short pieces of verse that became known as ''Easy Essays''. == Biography == He was born Aristide Pierre Maurin into a poor farming family in the village of Oultet in the Languedoc region of southern France, where he was one of 24 children. After spending time in the De La Salle Brothers, Maurin served in the Sillon movement of Marc Sangnier until he became discouraged by the Sillonist shift from personalist action towards political action.〔Sheehan, Arthur. Peter Maurin: Gay Believer. Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1959. pg. 52-69; 205.〕 He briefly moved to Saskatchewan to try his hand at homesteading, but was discouraged by the death of his partner in a hunting accident.〔(Day, Dorothy. "Peter Maurin, 1877-1977," ''The Catholic Worker'', May 1977, 1,9 )〕〔() 〕 He then traveled throughout the American east for a few years, and eventually settled in New York. For a ten-year period, Maurin was not a practicing Catholic "because I was not living as a Catholic should."〔Sheehan, 81-82.〕 In the mid-1920s, Maurin was working as a French tutor in the New York suburbs. It was at this time Maurin experienced a religious conversion.〔Sheehan, 83.〕 He was inspired by the life of Francis of Assisi. He ceased charging for his lessons and asked only that students give any sum they thought appropriate. This was likely prompted by reading about St. Francis, who viewed labor as a gift to the greater community, not a mode of self-promotion.〔Ellis, Marc H. ''Peter Maurin: Prophet in the Twentieth Century''. New York: Paulist Press, 1981. p. 34-35〕 During this portion of his life, he began composing the poetry that would later be called his ''Easy Essays''.〔Sheehan, 84.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Maurin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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