A priest known by his Resistance code name Abbé Pierre awakened the conscience of France in 1954 when he seized the microphone of Radio Luxembourg and told of a woman who had frozen to death in a Paris street clutching a notice of eviction. His appeal for help — for blankets, stoves, tents — altered French thinking about the homeless. Through continued outspokenness and charitable work he influenced subsequent public policy, and today polls show Abbé Pierre, founder of the international charity Companions of Emmaus, to be the nation’s most admired person.

(Time, May 9» 1994)

(* eviction – despejo

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O padre conhecido como Abade Pierre