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Pope Walks in Footsteps of St Augustine on 2nd Day of Algeria Visit
Leo prayed at Augustine’s burial site and planted an olive tree as he pressed a message of peace and Christian-Muslim coexistence.
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On the second day of his journey and the day after the virulent attacks of the Trump administration on Tuesday, April 14, the American pontiff went in the footsteps of his spiritual master, theologian and philosopher of Christianity.
Algeria-born St Augustine key part of Pope Leo historic visit
Pope Leo XIV walked on Tuesday in the footsteps of his spiritual father, St. Augustine, making a pilgrimage to the archaeological ruins in Algeria where the fifth-century titan of early Christianity lived, died and wrote some of the most important works in Western thought. Leo's visit to Annaba, the modern-day Hippo, was a spiritual homecoming for the American pope on his second full day in Algeria. He arrived on Monday on a first-ever papal vis…
Pope Leo XIV: Algeria, a magnificent opportunity to build bridges and foster dialogue
On the flight to Cameroon, the Pope reflects on his historic visit to Algeria, the first stage of his apostolic journey through Africa, and highlights the symbolic value of Saint Augustine and the meeting at the Great Mosque as signs of peaceful coexistence
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