White Fathers
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The White Fathers, officially known as the Missionaries of Africa and abbreviated MAfr, are a Catholic society of apostolic life of pontifical right for men. They were founded in 1868 by Charles Lavig
Charles-Martial Allemand-Lavigerie
The first convent in Maison-Carrée (now El-Harrach), near Algiers, French Algeria.
Cypress Grove House, home of the White Fathers in Ireland
General House in Rome
Burnous
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A burnous, also burnoose, burnouse, bournous or barnous, is a long cloak of coarse woollen fabric with a pointed hood, often white, traditionally worn by Northwest African men. Historically, the white
White Fathers
…food, and wearing the same clothing. As a result, they adopted traditional North African attire for their vestments: the gandoura for the cassock, the burnous for the mantle, and the chechia for the zucchetto. They also wore their rosaries with crucifixes as necklaces, symbolizing their religion and imitating…
Urban Algerian man wearing a white/beige burnous, 19th century
French Colonial era illustration of a North African man wearing a burnous (as well as a local woman), in the Regency of Algiers.
Algerian military leader Abd el-Kader wearing a burnous in 1853
Algerian Spahis of the French army wearing the burnous as part of their uniform, 1886