He was born in
La Flèche in 1914. At some point he was a professor at a seminary in
Dijon. He lived in
Nazareth, Palestine, from 1956 to 1967, leaving shortly after the Six Days' War. Gauthier was invited by
Georges Hakim,
Archbishop of
Galilee, to speak to the
Second Vatican Council, where he called on the Church to take on a more active role in social justice. While in Palestine, he was part of a group called "Companions of Jesus the Carpenter", providing aid to poverty-stricken people. He died in Marseille in 2002. One of his students was
Enrique Dussel, who claimed that his time with Gauthier "opened [his] mind, [his] spirit, [his] flesh, to a project again unsuspected." == See also ==