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Charles Lavigerie, French clergyman, 1869. Lavigerie (1825-1892) was appointed Archbishop of Algiers in 1866, and was later made primate for the whole of equatorial Africa by Pope Pius IX. In 1874 he founded a missionary order, the Societe de Missionnaires d'Afrique, known as the Peres Blancs (White Fathers). Made a cardinal in 1882, Lavigerie devoted the later years of his his life to campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in Central Africa. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1845-1890, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L'Arcade, Paris 8, 1845-1890.