Young catechumens standing outside of a building, Benin, ca. 1920-1940

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Title: Young catechumens standing outside of a building, Benin, ca. 1920-1940
Published / Created: 1920-1940
Publication Place: Benin, Africa
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
MISSIONS AFRICAINES, 150, cours Gambetta, LYON. Four young Catholic catechumens in patterned wraps stand outside of a mud building.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed over the whole of the back of the postcard is"Missions Africaines de Lyon. En 1856 Mgr de Marion Bresillac fonde cette Societe qui depuis 100 ans evangelise le pourtour du golfe de Guinee: Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Gold Coast, Togo, dahomey, Nigeria ainsi que l'Egypte et le Congo Belge. Les premiers Missionaires (1856) , trouvent un paysn ou regnent le fetichisme, l'esclavage ; des sacrifices humains sont offerts aux dieux. Aucune ecole, pas un seul chretien, pas un seul pretre. A peine cent ans plus tard, grace a la generosite, souvent teintee du sang des Missionnaires, on compte 1,200,000 chretiens, 300,000 ecoliers de la Mission catholique, 109 pretres noirs. Des hopitaux, des dispensaires, des asiles, des pouponnieres sont la pour secourir toutes les miseres." Further text is obscured by a stamp reading "PROCURE DES MISSIONS AFRICAINES (Loire-Interieure) Tel. 162-66 C. C. P. Nantes 261-54.

Repository: Yale Divinity Library
Collection Title: Missionary Postcard Collection
Collection / Other Creator: Yale Divinity Library Special Collections. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Collection Date: 1880-1950
Container / Volume: Box 11

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