Main Events in Charles de Foucauld's Life
Tamanrasset
- 1905
- In August, he arrived at Tamanrasset in the Hoggar region.
For the
next three years he traveled back and forth to Béni-Abbes,
spending most of his time, however, at Tamanrasset.
 Visiting Marie de Bondy
- 1907-08
- July, famine in the Hoggar. In January, 1908, Brother
Charles
suffered a physical breakdown. By June, his letters read like someone
in a spiritual, psychological Dark Night.
- 1908-09
- December to March, he had a sojourn with his family in
France.
He wrote the statutes of the Union of the Brothers and Sisters of the
Sacred Heart.
- 1909
- By June, he was again in Tamanrasset until January,1911.
- 1910
- Abbe Huvelin, his confessor and close friend, died.
 Assekrem
- 1910
- He constructed a hermitage on the peak of Assekrem in July.
"My hermitage here is on a
summit that overlooks practically the whole of the Hoggar and stands
amid wild looking mountains beyond which the seemingly limitless
horizon makes one think of the infinitude of God."
-
1911
- February and March in France.
- From May, 1911, until April,1913
- Charles was at Tamanrassset.
- 1913
- Again in France from April to November, he returned to
Tamanrasset.
- 1914
- The First World War started in September,1914.
- 1916
- The Senoussistes marauded in the Hoggar. In April, he moved
into a
small fortress in Tamanrasset. On December 1, he was
assassinated.
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