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Charles Lavigerie
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Cardinal, born Huire, France, October 31, 1825; died Algiers, November 26, 1892. Be studied at the diocesan seminary of Larressore, at Saint Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in Paris, and at Saint Sulpice. After his ordination, June 2, 1849, he attended the Ecole des Carmes, taking at the Sorbonne the doctorates of letters (1850) and theology (1853), to which he added later the Roman doctorates of civiland canon law. Appointed chaplain of Sainte-Genevieve in 1853, he became associate professor of church history at the Sorbonne, 1854, was promoted to the Roman Rota, 1861, and to the See of Nancy, 1863. He founded colleges at Vic, Blamont, and Luneville, and established at Nancy a higher institute for clerics and a house for law students. In 1867 he was transferred to Algiers, where as archbishop he inaugurated a strong movement of conciliation towards the Moslems. With the help of the White Fathers and the White Sisters, whom he founded for the purpose, he established and maintained orphanages, industrial schools, settlements, and hospitals, where the Arabs could be brought under Catholic influence. As Apostolic Delegate of Western Sahara and the Sudan, he began in 1874 the work which brought his missionaries into the heart of Africa; to this was added the administration of the Diocese of Constantine, the foundation of a clerical seminary for the Oriental missions at Saint Anne of Jerusalem, 1878, and the government of the Vicariate of Tunis. Made cardinal in 1881, he became first primate of the newly restored See of Carthage in 1884, retaining the See of Algiers. The monuments of his prodigious activity in Africa are Notre-Dame d' Afrique at Algiers, the Basilica of Saint Louis at Carthage, and the Cathedral of Saint Vincent de Paul at Tunis. He will be best remembered in connection with his furthering the policy of Pope Leo XIII, directing French Catholics to adhere to the republic, and with his promotion of the anti-slavery movement.
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Entry for 'Charles Lavigerie'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/c/charles-lavigerie.html. 1910.
