 abbÃ© pierre, ofm cap,  (born henri marie joseph grouÃ¨s; 5 august 1912 â 22 january 2007) was a french catholic priest, member of the resistance during world war ii, and deputy of the popular republican movement (mrp). in 1949, he founded the emmaus movement, with the goal of helping poor and homeless people and refugees. abbÃ© means abbot in french, and is also used as a courtesy title given to catholic priests in french-speaking countries. he was one of the most popular figures in france, but had his name removed from such polls after some time.le top 50 des personnalitÃ©s, 12/06, sondage ifop pour le journal du dimanche p.12 et suivantes == youth and education == grouÃ¨s was born on 5 august 1912 in lyon, france to a wealthy catholic family of silk traders, the fifth of eight children. he spent his childhood in irigny, near lyon. he was twelve when he met franÃ§ois chabbey and went for the first time with his father to an order circle, the brotherhood of the "hospitaliers veilleurs" in which the mainly middle-class members would serve the poor by providing barber services. grouÃ¨s became a member of the scouts de france in which he was nicknamed "meditative beaver" (castor mÃ©ditatif). in 1928, aged 16, he made the decision to join a monastic order, but he had to wait until he was seventeen and a half to fulfill this ambition. in 1931 grouÃ¨s entered the capuchin order, the principal off-shoot of the franciscans, renouncing his inheritances and offering all his possessions to charities.  known as frÃ¨re philippe (brother philippe), he entered the monastery of crest in 1932, where he lived seven years. he had to leave in 1939 after developing severe lung infections, which made the strict and hard monastic life difficult to cope with. he became chaplain in the hospital of la mure (isÃ¨re), and then of an orphanage in the cÃ´te-saint-andrÃ© (also in the isÃ¨re department). after being ordained a roman catholic priest on 24 august 1938, he became curate of grenoble's cathedral in april 1939, only a few months before the invasion of poland.[http://www.fondation-abbe-pierre.fr/abbe_pierre.html fondation abbÃ© pierre
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