Issued on: 14/04/2026 - 16:05

Pope Leo XIV is following in the footsteps of his spiritual father, St Augustine, on the second day of his visit to Algeria, making a pilgrimage to the archaeological ruins of eastern Algeria where the fifth-century titan of early Christianity lived, died and wrote some of the most important works in Western thought. France 24s Claire Paccalin has the latest.

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