See also:CHARLES See also:MARTIAL ALLEMAND See also:LAVIGERIE (1825-1892)
, See also:French divine, See also:cardinal See also:archbishop of See also:Carthage and See also:Algiers and See also:primate of See also:Africa, was See also:born at See also:Bayonne on the 31st of See also:October 1825, and was educated at St Sulpice, See also:Paris
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He was ordained See also:priest in 1849, and was See also:professor of ecclesiastical See also:history at the See also:Sorbonne from 1854 to 1856
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In 1856 he accepted the direction of the See also:schools of the See also:East, and was thus for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time brought into contact with the See also:Mahommedan See also:world
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" C'est la," he wrote, " que j'ai connu enfin ma vocation." Activity in missionary See also:work, especially in alleviating the distresses of the victims of the See also:Druses, soon brought him prominently into See also:notice; he was made a See also:chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, and in October 1861, shortly after his return to See also:Europe, was appointed French auditor at See also:Rome
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Two years later he was raised to the see of See also:Nancy, where he remained for four years, during which the See also:diocese became one of the best administered in See also:France
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While See also:bishop of Nancy he met See also:Marshal See also:MacMahon, then See also:governor-See also:general of See also:Algeria, who in 1866 offered him the see of Algiers, just raised to an archbishopric
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See also:Lavigerie landed in Africa on the 11th of May 1868, when the See also:great See also:famine was already making itself See also:felt, and he began in See also:November to collect the orphans into villages
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This See also:action, however, did not meet with the approval of MacMahon, who feared that the See also:Arabs would resent it as an infraction of the religious See also:peace, and thought that the Mahommedan See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, being a See also:state institution in Algeria, ought to be protected from proselytism; so it was intimated to the See also:prelate that his See also:sole See also:duty was to See also:minister to the colonists
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Lavigerie, however, continued his self-imposed task, refused the archbishopric of See also:Lyons, which was offered to him by the See also:emperor, and won his point
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Contact with the natives during the famine caused Lavigerie to entertain exaggerated hopes for their general See also:conversion, and his See also:enthusiasm was such that he offered to resign his archbishopric in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to devote himself entirely to the See also:missions
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See also:Pius IX. refused this, but granted him a coadjutor, and placed the whole of See also:equatorial Africa under his See also:charge
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In 1870 Lavigerie warmly supported papal See also:infallibility
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In 1871 he was twice a See also:candidate for the See also:National See also:Assembly, but was defeated
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In 1874 he founded the See also:Sahara and See also:Sudan See also:mission, and sent missionaries to See also:Tunis, See also:Tripoli, East Africa and the See also:Congo
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The order of See also:African missionaries thus founded, for which Lavigerie himself See also:drew up the See also:rule, has since become famous as the Peres Blanes
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From 1881 to 1884 his activity in See also:Tunisia so raised the See also:prestige of France that it drew from See also:Gambetta the celebrated See also:declaration, L'Anticlericalisme n'est pas un See also:article d'exportation, and led to the exemption of Algeria from the application of the decrees concerning the religious orders
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On the 27th of See also:March 1882 the dignity of cardinal was conferred upon Lavigerie, but the great See also:object of his ambition was to restore the see of St See also:Cyprian; and in that also he was successful, for by a See also:bull of loth November 1884 the See also:metropolitan see of Carthage was re-erected, and Lavigerie received the See also:pallium on the 25th of See also:January 1885
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The later years of his See also:life were spent in ardent See also:anti-See also:slavery propaganda, and his eloquence moved large audiences in See also:London, as well as in Paris, See also:Brussels and other parts of the See also:continent
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He hoped, by organizing a fraternity of armed laymen as pioneers, to restore fertility to the Sahara; but this community did not succeed, and was dissolved before his See also:death
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In 1890 Lavigerie appeared in the new See also:character of a politician, and arranged with See also:Pope See also:Leo XIII. to make an See also:attempt to reconcile the church with the See also:republic
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He invited the See also:officers of the Mediterranean See also:squadron to lunch at Algiers, and, practically renouncing his monarchical sympathies, to which he clung as See also:long as the See also:comte de See also:Chambord was alive, expressed his support of the republic,
and emphasized it by having the Marseillaise played by a See also:band of his Peres Blancs
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The further steps in this See also:evolution emanated from the pope, and Lavigerie, whose See also:health now began to fail, receded comparatively into the background
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He died at Algiers on the 26th of November 1892
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LA VILLEMARQUE, See also:THEODORE See also:CLAUDE See also:HENRI, VICOMTE HERSART DE (1815-1895), French philologist and See also:man of letters, was born at Keransker, near See also:Quimperle, on the 6th of See also:July 1815
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He was descended from an old See also:Breton See also:family, which counted among its members a Hersart who had followed See also:Saint See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis to the Crusade, and another who was a See also:companion in arms of Du Guesclin
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La Villemarque devoted himself to the elucidation of the monuments of Breton literature
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Introduced in 1851 by See also:Jacob See also:Grimm as correspondent to the See also:Academy of See also:Berlin, he became in 1858 a member of the Academy of See also:Inscriptions
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His See also:works include: Conies populaires See also:des anciens Bretons (1842), to which was prefixed an See also:essay on the origin of the romances of the See also:Round Table; Essai sur l'histoire de la langue bretonne (1837); Poemes des bardes bretons du sixieme siecle (1850); La Legende celtique en Irelande, en Cambrie et en Bretagne (18J9)
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The popular Breton songs published by him in 1839 as Barzaz Breiz were considerably retouched
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La Villemarque's work has been superseded by the work of later scholars, but he has the merit of having done much to arouse popular See also:interest in his subject
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He died at Keransker on the 8th of See also:December 1895
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On the subject of the doubtful authenticity of Barzaz Breiz, see Luzel's See also:Preface to his Chansons populaires de la Basse-Bretagne, and, for a See also:list of works on the subject, the Revue Celtique (vol. v.)
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