Peter Maurin was born in 1877 and died in 1949. He is introduced late in Day's biography, but is undoubtedly its second-most important figure. He was a radical Catholic social activist who started the Catholic Worker with Day in 1933 and helped create the Catholic Worker movement along with her. Day first describes meeting Peter as something of an overwhelming experience. He was extremely passionate and very abstract and intellectual. He was a passionate distributist and defender of farming communes. He advocated simple living, resisting technology and communitarianism. He was also an anti-statist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist.
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