Stan Rougier
Stan Rougier (born June 23, 1930) is a French Catholic priest and writer, incardinated in the diocese of Évry-Corbeil-Essonnes. Biography. Born in Jurançon (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) into a family of six, he spent his youth in the Basque Country and Auvergne, where he practised various sports and, from very early on, scouting. He was the interpreter of the Burmese delegation at the 1947 Scout Jamboree in Moisson. In 1967, he was chaplain of the French delegation to the Scout Jamboree in Spokane. At first an educator of young people in difficulty (Royat and Auxerre), then a nurse  in Burkina Faso for a year, he then 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 Church of Saint-Séverin in Paris . He then mainly exercised 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 participated 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 was 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, 14 years earlier. He traveled, most often by  hitchhiking, in more than 80 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, United Kingdom, 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. He was in demand for more than 30 years to give conferences, lead retreats and meetings, accompany pilgrimages, participate in interfaith dialogue, in France and outside France, and enthusiastically shared his faith in a God of Love  throughout the world: 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.