Who are Simones?
A priori the Simones are presented for two women who lived in the same time, surrounded by dreams, unusual designs and more rooted in a society where women were treated with indifference and even as inferior to man.
The first to be mentioned is Simone Simone Weil who was born in Paris on February 3, 1909. Coming from a Jewish family, but was educated agnosticamente. His childhood is marked by his love for the poor and the suffering. He has five years old when World War I begins in 1914. Endowed with a remarkable intelligence, quickly this is reflected in their school success. He studied at the school where Dury made a year Philosophy learning from Le Senne. In Henri-IV high school, where he studied with Alain who instilled in his students the beautiful taste, admiration and enthusiasm for the ideas and the Greek world, prepared to attend the Ecole Normale Superieure, which filed nineteen years old, in 1928.
At 22 passes the exam aggregation in philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1931. It is the first High School teacher in Le Puy, where once again makes itself felt his love for suffering. So solidarity with the workers who were forced to work hard, as from stone, to receive unemployment benefits. This solidarity is not only theoretical or sentimental, is embodied in practice, since to live Simone came to be content with the corresponding sum to unemployment benefit, distributing to others who had the most of its resources. The practical solidarity of Simone Weil has become even more effective when, in 1934, becomes a factory worker and experience what it is to hunger, fatigue, the inhumanity of some officials and even the anguish of being unemployed. Note that you can find these features in many "Marias" of our twenty-first century. This experience, although not very long, always mark the rest of his short life. When in 1936, click the war in Spain, part forward in Barcelona, but an accident caused due to their inexperience makes it immediately evacuated. Throughout his life are three contacts with Catholicism, as he confesses in his spiritual autobiography, marking and change their relationship with God and with others. The first of these contacts takes place in a village of Portugal, as Simone Weil visited the country in the company of their parents. Simone confesses shocked by the poverty he saw, that: "(...) Then I was suddenly sure that Christianity is, par excellence, the religion of the slaves, the slaves can not but adhere to it, and I among them '.
The second contact occurred in 1937 when passes two wonderful days in Assisi. In the chapel of Santa Maria degli Angeli, the first time in his life something stronger than her forced her to kneel. A third approach takes place in 1938, when it passes ten days in Solesmes, the Sunday of Ramos until the Tuesday of Easter. Follow all celebrations. I had by this immense height, deep headaches, but confesses that this experience allowed him by analogy "better understand the possibility of love of divine love through the unhappiness. It is seen that in the course of these crafts, the thought of the Passion of Christ entered me once. "
In 1939 starts World War II, but Simone Weil, who was Jewish, just leave Paris in 1940, when the Germans enter the city. She and the family took refuge in Marseille, where he starts to collaborate with the magazine "Cahiers du Sud" under the pseudonym Emile Novis. It is also in Marseille who knows Father Joseph-Marie Ferrin, who becomes his friend and confidant. The May 14, 1942, a few months after the priest be assigned to Montpellier, Simone Weil is forced to leave with his parents to the United States, settling in New York. He retained his love for those who suffered most. Thus, he began to frequent the neighborhood of Harlem, where attended a Baptist church on Sundays, and where the only white person she was. Always wanted to go to London to be closer to France. In late November 1942 comes to the British capital, a city that it causes a "visceral" disappointment. Encouraged to achieve a difficult and painful task, sacrificing himself to save other lives. Simone Weil working to exhaustion, sleeps badly and eats even worse. In April 1943 it is admitted to Middlesex Hospital because he had contracted tuberculosis. I was very weak and, as such, could not be cured, but wanted to be in the field was transferred to the sanatorium of Ashford, where he died on August 24, 1943, aged 34.
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