Cardijn Fundador

• Born on 1882 in Brussels, Belgium
• Henry Cardijn (father)
• Louise Cardijn (mother) – very religious
• Loved to chat with the artisans
• Curious boy, voracious reader, loved school
• Very sensitive to every human suffering he met
• At dawn he always saw factory workers going to the factories with their 7-8 years old child.
• Belgian workers work 12-14 hours and earned a penny with no rest.
• Children were locked or tied at their worked so that they could not wander around.
• No politicians, no au
  

Three fundamental truths dominate and illumine the problem of the working youth of the world. They inspire, explain, and direct us towards the solution that the Y.C.W. has to give:

1. A truth of faith. The eternal and temporal destiny of each young worker in particular and of all the young workers in general.

2. A truth of experience. The terrible contradiction which exists between the real state of the young workers and this eternal and temporal destiny.

3. A truth of pastoral practice or method. The necessity of a Catholic organization of young workers with a view to the conquest of their eternal and temporal destiny.