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Africa, Algeria, Ceuta Our Lady of Africa (French: Notre-Dame D'Afrique ; Arabic: السيدة الإفريقية ), also known as Our Mother of Africa , is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a statue of her as a Black woman, located in the major shrine of Notre-Dame d'Afrique in Algiers, Algeria .
Algeria. Notre Dame d'Afrique, Algiers; Cameroon. ... Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians in Hubertus, Wisconsin [36]
Algeria. Notre Dame d'Afrique, Algiers; Cameroon. ... Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians in Hubertus, Wisconsin [18]
A shrine to the Virgin Mary, or Marian shrine, is a shrine marking an apparition or other miracle ascribed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a site on which is centered a historically strong Marian devotion. Such locales are often the destinations of Christian pilgrimages.
Basilique Notre Dame d'Afrique (English: “Basilica of Our Lady of Africa”) is a Catholic basilica in Algiers, Algeria. It is the origin of the modern Catholic devotion to Our Lady of Africa. Pope Pius IX granted two Pontifical decrees towards the shrine on the same day on 15 April 1876:
Santa Cruz Fort is one of the three forts in Oran, the second largest port city of Algeria; the other two forts are Fort de la Moune at the western end of the port and Fort Saint-Philippe, a replacement of the old castle of the Saints known in Spanish as Castillo de los Santos, at the centre of Oran. The three forts are connected by tunnels.
Our Lady of Africa, a Catholic devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary; Notre-Dame d'Afrique, a Catholic basilica in Algeria; Notre Dame D'Afrique, Bangui, a Catholic church in the Central African Republic; Shrine of Our Lady of Africa, a Catholic shrine in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa
In 1958, during the Algerian war, Fellaghas raided the monastery. In 1962, there were just nine monks left. [1] After the independence of Algeria, the closing of the monastery was considered by the monks, but the death of the General Abbot of the Trappists, Dom Gabriel Sortais during the same night as the signing of the decree of the closure of the monastery, suspended the decision.