Jacques Maritain was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he became an agnostic before converting to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times and is a prominent drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The section by John Howard Griffin gave good insight in to Jacques Maritain as a Little Brother of Jesus (St Charles de Foucauld). At the age of 89 he was accepted as a novice in the order. He would pronounce his solemn vows as a Little Brother.