Stan Rougier

Stan Rougier, born June 23, 1930 in Jurançon (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), is a French Catholic priest and writer, incardinated in the diocese of Évry-Corbeil-Essonnes.
== Biography ==
Born in of a family of six (Michel, Jean, Yves, Madeleine, Alain), he spent his youth in the Basque Country and Auvergne, where he practiced various sports (judo, boxing, horse riding, swimming, skiing, rock climbing, paragliding...) and very early on scouting. He is the interpreter of the Burmese delegation at the 1947 Scout Jamboree in Moisson. In 1967, he will be chaplain of the French delegation to that of Spokane.
First educator of young people in difficulty (Royat and Auxerre), then nurse in Burkina Faso for a year, he spent two years at the Issy-les-Moulineaux seminary. He was successively hired in a foundry, a building site, and later a garage. He spent two years at the Mission de France in Pontigny, then, at the end of 1957, entered the Dominican novitiate in Lille, which he left a year later. On December 18, 1960, in Meudon, after two years at the seminary of Versailles, he was ordained a priest for the diocese of Versailles. The next day he celebrated his first mass at the Saint-Séverin Church in Paris. He will then mainly exercise his ministry with young people, as chaplain for high school and college students, in Bezons, Houdan, Savigny-sur-Orge (Corot High School), Orsay (Faculty of Sciences of Orsay), Paris (Racine, Condorcet and Sainte-Marie-La Madeleine High Schools), Gif-sur-Yvette, Bures-sur-Yvette, Les Ulis, Marolles-en-Hurepoix. He currently belongs to the diocese of Essonne.
At the same time, at the end of the 1970s, he became a columnist for several newspapers and magazines (notably La Croix, Panorama, etc.), preacher on radio (France Culture) and on television for the program Le Jour du Seigneur. (France 2). He regularly participates in KTO Magazine on the KTO-TV channel. In 2007, an entire program was devoted to him: L'amour comme un défi. In 2013, he took part in the KTO Magazine show on June 2, 2013: La foi prise au mot. He is then seen on various France Télévisions stages, invited in particular by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor and Mireille Dumas, or even on BFM TV and on Grand Journal of Canal+, the day after the election of Pope Francis, whom he had met at length in Buenos Aires, fourteen years earlier.
He traveled, most often by hitchhiking, in more than eighty countries, including: India, Nepal, Iran, Afghanistan, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Guatemala, Cuba, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Soviet Union, Iceland, Great Britain, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Austria, United States, Canada, Holy Land, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Greece, Turkey, South Africa, Zaire, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, China, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan.
Asked for more than thirty years to give conferences, lead retreats and meetings, accompany pilgrimages, participate in interreligious dialogue, in France and outside France, he enthusiastically shares his faith in a God of Love in the four corners of the planet: France, Mauritius, Rodrigues Island, Réunion, Seychelles, Tahiti, New Caledonia, Marquesas Islands, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Mauritania, Morocco (in particular: Fez Music Festival), Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, United States, Quebec, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, England, Czech Republic, Croatia and the Holy Land (pilgrimages).
He published his first book L'Avenir est à la tendresse in 1977. For 25 years, he was a member of the Board of the AECEF, or association des écrivains croyants d'expression française (association of believing writers of French expression).
He was often invited to Radio Notre-Dame on the program Écoute dans la nuit by its host Chantal Bally, in which he was interviewed by listeners and where he dealt with a subject determined by mutual agreement between them.
==In the media==
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== References ==
==External links==
* Stan Rougier: Books - Amazon.co.uk
* Père Stan Rougier, Preacher - The Foyers de Charité
Category:1930 births
Category:French writers
Category:French people
Category:French Roman Catholic priests
Category:Living people