Augustin Hacquard
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Augustin Prosper Hacquard was a French missionary who became Apostolic Vicar of Sahara and Sudan in 1898. After several years in Algeria, including a short period as head of the Armed Brothers of the
Augustin Hacquard in 1898
White Fathers in Marseille 25 December 1894 before leaving for the Sudan, Hacquard in center
White Fathers on 25 October 1897 in Marseille, Hacquard in center
Mission at Ségou in 1900
Kabara, Mali
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Kabara is a small town in Mali on the Niger River, the port for Timbuktu. It is 8 km to the south of Timbuktu and is connected to an arm of the Niger River by a 3 km canal. The town has at times in th
Augustin Hacquard
…harvest. For several years the mission operated a liberty village near Ségou. On 30 April 1895 Hacquard and Father Dupuis took a boat down the Niger to Kabara, the port of Timbuktu, which they reached on 21 May 1895. They quickly established a mission where Hacquard ran the pharmacy and Dupuis taught about…
Kabara by Heinrich Barth (1853)
"In the camp before Kabara." (Emin Pasha expedition, before 1891)