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Amid his tour of France’s cathedrals, Henri d’Anselme discusses the country’s original vocation as the Church’s historic protector, assesses the spiritual state of Europe — and how faith helped him that fateful day.
His name and face brought comfort to a world shocked by the appalling knife attack that wounded six people, including four small children, near Annecy Lake (north of the French Alps) on June 8, 2023.
A few hours after the event, it was the profound, serene gaze of 24-year-old Henri d’Anselme, who had not hesitated to risk his life in an attempt to stop the perpetrator, that gone viral on all social networks, earning him the nickname of “Backpack Hero.”
The public’s surprise was heightened when they discovered that the young man had been driven by his love of Christ and that he had found himself at the scene of the crime “by chance” while on a tour of France’s cathedrals to raise awareness of the need to safeguard the country’s religious heritage.
But by making the defense of heritage his main mission, it is the whole of Christianity that the young man intends to promote on a national and international scale, as he revealed in this interview with the Register on the sidelines of a conference in Budapest on April 16. “Can Christianity Save Europe?” was the theme of the event, promoted by Hungary’s National University of Public Service.
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His name and face brought comfort to a world shocked by the appalling knife attack that wounded six people, including four small children, near Annecy Lake (north of the French Alps) on June 8, 2023.
A few hours after the event, it was the profound, serene gaze of 24-year-old Henri d’Anselme, who had not hesitated to risk his life in an attempt to stop the perpetrator, that gone viral on all social networks, earning him the nickname of “Backpack Hero.”
The public’s surprise was heightened when they discovered that the young man had been driven by his love of Christ and that he had found himself at the scene of the crime “by chance” while on a tour of France’s cathedrals to raise awareness of the need to safeguard the country’s religious heritage.
But by making the defense of heritage his main mission, it is the whole of Christianity that the young man intends to promote on a national and international scale, as he revealed in this interview with the Register on the sidelines of a conference in Budapest on April 16. “Can Christianity Save Europe?” was the theme of the event, promoted by Hungary’s National University of Public Service.
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I Thought of St. Michael the Archangel, Says ‘Backpack Hero’ of Annecy Knife Attack
Amid his tour of France’s cathedrals, Henri d’Anselme discusses the country’s original vocation as the Church’s historic protector, assesses the spiritual state of Europe — and how faith helped him that fateful day.
