7th November in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Letter to the Congregation of Propaganda Fide (7 November 1892)
Your Eminence,
The extensive mission of Upper Congo, situated within the territory of the independent State and serve by the priests of the Society of Missionaries of Algiers, is at the moment without a leader. Reverend Father Coulbois who had been in charge of the administration this last period, with the function of ProVicar Apostolic, returned to Europe in April of the present year for serious health reasons and finds himself obliged, for the same reasons, to resign definitively from his previous office.

Addressing Social Justice in St Anthony’s and St Mark’s Parish in Rutherglen, Great Britain

The first one is our St Vincent de Paul Group (SVDP), who for years has been assisting local families in their times of need. Presently there are six active members who this year undertook 378 visits to families and individuals in the parish area. These visits range from sharing a cup of tea and a chat with those who have little contact with others to assisting families moving from one home to another.

6th November in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Letter to Father Bresson, superior of Woluwé, Belgium (6 November 1885)
My dear Friend,
I also regretted not going to see you all in Algiers. I would have liked to ask you in detail about the house in Woluwe and the arrangements in Belgium. Thank you for the long letter you have written to me and the useful information it contains. I see with joy that the Good Lord is blessing your work and that of your good confreres. Tell them and also your students that I bless them from afar, with a most paternal heart. What I wish above all is to see the bonds that unite the different nationalities in our little Society become closer. I hold more dearly to the union with the Belgians who came first and who are eminently gifted with qualities for the apostolate.

5th November in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Letter to his friend Mgr Foulon, Archbishop of Besançon in France (4 November 1886)
Reverend and Dear Monsignor,
Your friendship with me is always faithful to me, and we have now reached an age where old friendships are becoming dearer as they become rarer. We represent the first group of runners. What your Grace tells me about the cardinals of Lyon and Rennes touches me all the more since Roman tradition and the most respectable historical monuments prove as being fidei proximum, that the princes of the Church always leave three together.

Missionaries of Africa
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