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unusual facts about Charles Lavigerie



Alexis-Armand Charost

Charost served as papal legate to the centennial celebrations in honor of Cardinal Charles Lavigerie in Algiers on August 25, 1925, to the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic University of Lille on March 14, 1927, and to the celebrations in honor of St. Thérèse de Lisieux in Lisieux on September 15, 1929.

Apostolic Vicariate of Sahara

Eight years after the journey of the French explorer Henri Duveyrier (1859–61), which had important scientific results, Pope Pius IX on 6 August 1868 appointed the Archbishop of Algiers, Mgr Charles Lavigerie, delegate Apostolic of the Sahara and the Sudan.


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