{"id":471,"date":"2026-10-02T20:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:11:54","slug":"our-lady-of-africa-french-notre-dame-dafrique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of Africa (French: Notre-Dame D&#8217;Afrique)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"898\" src=\"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/notre-dame-dafrique.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/notre-dame-dafrique.jpg 540w, https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/notre-dame-dafrique-180x300-1.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Our Lady of Africa<\/strong> (French: Notre-Dame D&#8217;Afrique, also known as Our Mother of Africa) is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a statue of her as a Black woman, located in the major shrine of Notre-Dame d&#8217;Afrique in Algiers, Algeria. Bishop Louis-Antoine-Augustin Pavy of Algiers spearheaded the devotion and established the basilica under that title in 1856.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The devotion has since gained traction across the African continent and in the African diaspora. Churches under the title have been established worldwide, including in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Our-Lady-Africa.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Our-Lady-Africa.webp 768w, https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Our-Lady-Africa-300x106.webp 300w, https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Our-Lady-Africa-500x177.webp 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>District 07\u00a0Kenya:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Province Our Lady of Africa<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>District 10<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>RD Congo: Province Our Lady of Africa<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The province was named Our Lady of Congo with the arrival of <a href=\"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/?page_id=188\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"188\">Mafuta<\/a>; then, with other members in Kenya, the province name was renamed to Our Lady of Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ACA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ACA.jpg 375w, https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ACA-272x300-1.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lady of Africa (French: Notre-Dame D&#8217;Afrique, also known as Our Mother of Africa) is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a statue of her as a Black woman, located in the major shrine of Notre-Dame &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/?p=471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emmi-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericmichelministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}