The Origins of the Pax Christi International Movement: the Pax Christi in Regno Christi Crusade

Authors

François Mabille, National Center for Scientific Research/Observatory of Geopolitics and ReligionsFollow

Abstract

The Pax Christi movement was created in 1944 by a French laywoman. Its original name was "crusade of prayers for the conversion of Germany", the term crusade referring to a very specific political and religious imagination, marked in particular by the intransigent Catholicism of the beginning of the 20th century and by a specious analysis of the origins of the Nazism. This article, resulting from a thesis devoted to the history of the movement from 1944 to 1983, reviews the genesis of Pax Christi, and its evolution during the first 5 years of its existence, from a "crusade of prayers" to a movement for peace living its first experiences around the Franco-German rapprochement.

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Recommended Citation

Mabille, François (2025) "The Origins of the Pax Christi International Movement: the Pax Christi in Regno Christi Crusade," The Journal of Social Encounters: Vol. 9: Iss. 2, 140-154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69755/2995-2212.1369
Available at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/social_encounters/vol9/iss2/11