Jean Vanier, a Canadian religious figure whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled throughout the world over the past half-century, has died at 90.
Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche charity, wears the Templeton Prize medal he won in 2015.
Vanier worked as a Canadian navy officer and professor before turning to charity work. A visit to a psychiatric hospital prompted him to found L'Arche in 1964 as an alternative living environment where those with developmental disabilities could be full-fledged participants in the community instead of patients.
"He saw people locked up, and he decided to make a gesture, inspired by the Bible," said Pierre Jacquand, who leads L'Arche's facilities in France."He felt a calling to defend the most marginalized." He also traveled the world to encourage dialogue across religions, and was awarded the 2015 Templeton Prize for spiritual work, as well as France's Legion of Honor. He was the subject of a documentary shown at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival called"Jean Vanier, the Sacrament of Tenderness."
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