Sandrine Prioul / Photo credits: Mateus Bonomi / AGIF / AGIF via AFP
modified to
11:50 a.m., April 26, 2024
The story of Ludovic Duée is surprising and fascinating. The professional volleyball player, captain of the Saint-Nazaire team, finalist in the French championship, is preparing to change his life to take up orders.
Moving from the emotion of the prosecution to the calm of orders. Ludovic Duée, the professional volleyball player for the Saint-Nazaire team, finalist in the French championship, decided to devote himself to spirituality. Exit the excited atmospheres of the volleyball floors. “Some call me the priest in the locker room,” he declared at the microphone of Europe 1. I have an attraction which, for me, comes from the Lord. In my faith, when I undress and there is my cross above my t-shirt, the shortcut is quickly seen in the locker room. The shorts and ball will be at recess when I have recess. In any case, that’s how I see it and I want to get started. Then it will give me some answers if there is a lack that is too strong.
The objective will be ordination
Ludovic Duée, a 1m92 libero, will be in a few weeks in a monastery among the canons of Saint Augustine. The goal will be ordination. “There will be renunciations, but it is a vocation and the image we have is not necessarily the reality. I was impressed and I really like the life of the canons. The canons are very fresh and dynamic and anything but austere”, declares Ludovic Duée to Europe 1. The future priest seems enthusiastic about his future monastic life in a regulated and largely masculine setting. “I already know,” smiles the Saint-Nazaire volleyball captain.