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Italian explorers in Africa (1891)

Bompiani, Sofia, b. 1835, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · [London] : Religious Tract Society · leaf 123

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CARDINAL MASSAJA. CHAPTER X. CARDINAL MASSAJA. ONE of the most remarkable characters of the modern Roman Catholic Church was the Capuchin monk, Cardinal Massaja, who died near Naples in August, 1888. I have myself seen him of a summer day — a venerable man with a thick grey beard, dressed in the…

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