Albert Peyriguère (Trébons, 28 September 1883 – Casablanca, 26 April 1959) was a Catholic priest, hermit and ethnologist from Southern France.

[1] His parents, Jean Peyriguère and Marie Bayle, were members of the working class and started calling him Albert at a young age.

[10] In July 1928, the forty-four year man settled in El Kbab, a village of then about thousand people in the middle of the Atlas mountains.

These activities raised suspicion with the French authorities in Morocco and general Roger Miquel, commander of the Meknes garrison, complained to the prior of Toumliline that Peyriguère had established a revolutionary mentality in El Kbab and was preaching communism.

[17] Also the threat of expulsion did not silence Father Peyriguère who aimed to follow the example of Charles de Foucauld who had denounced Saharan slavery and did not want to be considered a "mute dog".

[19] Albert Peyriguère was called a marabout by the local population due to his good works and care for the poor and sick.

[20] The correspondence between him and a nun, whose spiritual director he was, was published in 1962 under the title "Laissez-vous saisir par le Christ" and became a huge success.