About us
I started the IGNIS channel to share what changed my life: my encounter with God. Through our films and the Via Divina formation, I want to pass on this fire and make you want to discover it for yourself.
Here is our story
Behind IGNIS
My wife Éléonore, our children and I lived the beginnings of IGNIS together. Éléonore and I met in Lourdes. After taking time to discern our vocation, we understood that we were called to marriage.
The mission is also built at home. We talk about the projects and think them through together. And Éléonore knows how to rein me in when I get carried away with too many ideas!
My journey of faith
Ever since I finished school, I had wanted to work for God. This desire ran through my studies, my questions and my life choices.
I grew up in a Catholic family in Nancy. I went to Mass every Sunday, but my faith was not yet truly personal. On March 21, 2015, during an evening of adoration, I felt that God was hearing me and answering me. I date my conversion from that evening.
On YouTube, I discovered a Baptist pastor whose zeal touched me. I journeyed within a Protestant movement that I experienced as very harsh, without ever feeling 100% at home there. The graces I had received in Lourdes and in prayer before the Eucharist remained question marks for me.
During this period, I began a bachelor's degree at the Catholic Institute of Paris that included courses in philosophy and theology. It was equivalent to two years of the canonical baccalaureate. At the time, I was considering becoming a pastor. I was already looking for ways to make my faith the heart of my work.
The charity and humility of the religious in my godfather’s community touched me deeply. He recommended the Diary of Saint Faustina to me. Reading it brought me back to the Catholic faith, and then I discovered the writings of other saints and mystics.
Having returned to Catholicism, I wondered how I could work in connection with my faith and give my life to God. Éléonore and I took about two years to discern the question of a religious vocation. It was on the path of marriage that I found peace and joy.
After my bachelor’s degree, I did a master’s to become an elementary school teacher. I taught for two and a half years in Normandy. I loved passing things on, but I did not feel quite where I belonged. The desire I had had since finishing school, to work for God, grew again.
The key milestones
A collection of sayings of saints, the first videos, then films, a formation and gatherings. Here are the milestones of this adventure.
September 2022
While we are expecting our second child, I take parental leave to start this project. As a family, we move into a tent on family land in Normandy.
We had planned one year; we stayed two. Éléonore went on teaching, and I could still go back to my job. My work with 1000 raisons de croire then allowed me to carry on the mission.
Listen to the story of these beginnings
September to December 2022
I begin with a collection of quotations from saints and mystics. I want to share the texts that have touched me and that I love to read.
This work becomes Les Paroles de la Vie Éternelle. Before the films, there were all those hours spent reading and gathering words to pass on.
Discover the sayings of the saints
January to November 2023
I start posting short videos about the saints. The YouTube channel is then called “Nourriture spirituelle” (“Spiritual Food”). At first I share readings, then little by little the videos take on another form.
While preparing the collection, I wanted to share what I was discovering without waiting until I had finished it. I started reading texts by the saints on video.
Listen to the story of the first videos
November 21, 2023
On November 21, the channel takes the name IGNIS with my first major investigation into the existence of God, a video lasting 3 hours and 24 minutes. Then come the apologetics videos, to explain and defend the faith, and the investigations into miracles.
The 100 Catholic miracles series brings these accounts together. Several miracles have already been covered, and the series continues.
Watch the first major investigationFollow the 100 Catholic miracles
2024
I launch Via Divina, a formation in the spiritual life. Released in May, it becomes completely free on August 15. With the formation also comes a growing desire to meet, to pray and to move forward together.
That year, we also begin dubbing the films into other languages. On May 24, IGNIS receives the “Reportage” award at the first Night of Christian Influencers, at the Collège des Bernardins.
Discover the Via Divina formationSeptember 2024
I set out to read the complete Bible live on YouTube, in one week.
I had underestimated how long this reading would take. From Genesis to Revelation, I saw it through to the end.
June 21 and 22, 2025
At the monastery of Saint-Jodard, 65 people take part in the first IGNIS weekend to pray and learn together.
The momentum continues: a second IGNIS weekend was held on May 30 and 31, 2026.
Watch the film from the 2025 weekend
October 2025
With a friend, I set out from Paris for Rome without money, to live on Providence. We tell the story of this adventure in a film.
The journey takes place in October. The video that tells its story is published on December 3, 2025.
Watch the film of the journeyDecember 1, 2025
The app is released on iPhone and Android under the name Via Divina. It brings together the formation, the forum and the spiritual combat follow-up, so you can also move forward in everyday life. It now goes by the name Ignis.
At the end of that same year, the YouTube channel passes 100,000 subscribers. The films help people discover the faith; the app offers a way to keep nourishing it.
See what Via Divina offers
June 2026
We publish a major investigation into Medjugorje. In my eyes, it is our best documentary to date.
The film was released on June 25, 2026. In it, I ask this question: what is happening in Medjugorje?
Watch the documentary on Medjugorje
October 2026
The IGNIS YouTube channel now has 150,000 subscribers. The Via Divina formation, prayer, Ignispedia, the community and the tools all come together in one space.
IGNIS means “fire” in Latin. My desire remains the same: to make God known, to make people want to love Him, and to help everyone share what they have received.
Discover the worldwide prayerOn the IGNIS channel
Testimonies, miracles, investigations and encounters in the field: here are nine of our films. Open a video to watch it here or on YouTube.
150,000subscribers on the IGNIS YouTube channel
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The reality of the mission
For lack of means, our team has been reduced. Researching sources, writing, filming, editing and dubbing the films takes a lot of work. With fewer people, we have gone back to something simpler, keeping up the pace of the films as much as we can.
We devote ourselves full-time to this mission. It keeps going thanks to those who support it: this support allows us to continue the films and to offer the Via Divina formation for free. I want to carry on this adventure while keeping the same high standards for the content.
A free account to learn, pray and move forward together.
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What drives me
The fire of God’s love changed my life. I would like others to be able to discover it, to be nourished by the writings of the saints, to learn to pray and to find brothers and sisters to move forward with.
Whether you are discovering the faith or have been living it for a long time, you are welcome. Come and join us.
A free account to learn, pray and move forward together.
