30th March in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Please take over immediately the handling of this most serious matter and ask for the immediate release of this young doctor. Answer me by telegram, because I am determined to take this matter to Paris, if justice is not done in Algiers.

27th March in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Basically, in many different forms, one single feeling inspires them. It is the one Our Lord asked of Peter before making him the head of the Apostles, the one Saint Augustine the Doctor of our Africa and of the Church, proclaimed to be the sole law of Christians; the one I myself have taken as my motto : charity; love of God and love of so many abandoned souls.