People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — ENDED BY DEATH. [ARTICLE]

ENDED BY DEATH.

The Career of Cardinal Archbishop LaviKerle Closed—Demise of the Famous “Black Cardinal'* in Algiers—Brief Account of His Great Work. Algiers, Nov. 28.—Charles Martial Allemand-Lavigerie, cardinal archbishop of Carthage and Algiers, died here at 1 o’clock a. m. Saturday. [Charles Martial AUemand Lavigerie was born at Bayonne, France, October 31, 1825. He was educated for the church and soon became noted for his learning on theological subjects. He became professor of ecclesiastical history in the faculty of Paris. His abilities early attracted attention beyond the bounds of France and he was summoned to various honorable .functions at the papal court, all of which he discharged to the eminent satisfaction of his ecclesiastical superiors. By decree of March. 1863, he was designated as bishop of Nancy, and by a later, decree of January 12, 1867, he was transferred to the see of Algiers, which was erected into on archbishopric. Ho was afterward promoted to the rank of cardinal and has gained world-wide fame not only as one of the most distinguished prelates of the Roman church, but more especially on account of his successful efforts to reconcile the papacy to the French republic. It was through Cardinal Lavigerie that the present pope was led to issue his famous statement to the effect that the Catholics of France should recognize and obey the republic, and substantially that there was no cause for difference between the church and the republican institutions. This position of the pope was a deathblow to the monarchist movement in France, and many who had faithfully adhered to the royalist cause, because the church was supposed to be in sympathy with royalty, now gave in their adhesion to the republic. Cardinal Lavigerie’s influence is believed also to have had something to do with shaping the pope’s favorable attitude toward republican institutions in the United States and throughout the world. Mgr. Lavigerie was known all over christendom as the “Black Cardinal” on account of his long and remarkable crusade against slavery in the Dark Continent Six months ago he was at the point of death, as he had been three years previously, but he recovered, and notwithstanding his advanced age and delicacy of health it was hoped that he might still be spared for a number of years to carry on his great work.]