The epitaph of Charles Lavigerie
My epitaph to be placed on my tomb, which is to be made between the village of St Cyprian and that of Ste Monique (1881): ‘Here rests, in the hope of mercy, Charles Martial Lavigerie, former auditor of Rote, former bishop of Nancy, archbishop of Algiers, now ashes, who, having loved the Arabs, loved them to the end, and wished after his death to be buried among the sons whom during his life he had begotten to the Lord Jesus.’