First Things RSS Feed - Christian de Chergé https://www.firstthings.com/author/christian-de-cherg en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:55:04 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/christian-de-cherg 60 Last Testament https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/08/last-testament https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/08/last-testament Thu, 01 Aug 1996 00:00:00 -0400 On May 24, 1996, a group of Islamic terrorists announced that they had “slit the throats” of seven French Trappist monks whom they had kidnapped from the monastery of Tibherine in Algeria and held as hostages for two months. Prior to the kidnapping, the superior of the monastery, Father Christian de Chergé, had left with his family this testament “to be opened in the event of my death.”

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