3rd November in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Opening of Woluwé (Belgium) instructions to Father Bresson (1st November 1884)
In everything that has been said or written up to now about the Woluwé foundation, nothing has yet been said explicitly and precisely about the purpose for which this house was set up, as far as the resources the Society of the issionaries of Algiers must find in Belgium and Holland are concerned.

Gilles Barrette R.I.P.

Society of the Missionaries of Africa Father Barthélémy Bazemo, Provincial of the Americas,informs you of the return to the Lord of Father Gilles Barrette on Friday, 1st November 2024 in […]

2nd November in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Letter to the Prefect of the Propaganda Fide (2 November 1887)
Your Eminence,
As I had announced to your Eminence from the beginning, I had the Council of the Congregation
of the Missionaries of Algiers decide to send to Rome a certain number of scholastics who will live in
the procure of this small Society at Saint Nicholas of Lorraine and, under the direction of the Father Procurator, will be taking their theology courses and will then be qualified so that they can serve as directors or teachers in their own African seminaries, or those seminaries that the local Ordinaries would later want them to run.

1st November in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Letter to Missionaries concerning a violent dispute between two confrères (1st November 1876)
Today, in your midst, I have to carry out a sad duty. Some weeks ago, in one of the mission posts, a unique (up to now) event occurred and will not, I hope, have any imitators. Two Missionaries, a Father and a Brother, had the misfortune of lacking selfcontrol to the extent of coming to blows with each other in an excess of blind rage.

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