ABSTRACT
In 2010 there were 37 million Muslim Algerians to some few dozen thousand Christians, some of whom are evangelical converts to Christianity from Islam. In the south of Algeria which corresponds to the modern-day diocese of Laghouat-Ghardaia, the most noteworthy places of Christian pilgrimage are those which preserve the memory of Father Charles de Foucauld. This chapter discusses the Basilica of Saint Augustine and the sign that it displays over the Muslim city of Annaba. However, in Algeria there are two other basilicas which give a similar sign; these are 'Notre Dame d'Afrique' in Algiers and 'Notre Dame de Santa Cruz' in Oran. In a country which has become strongly Islamic such as Algeria, the monuments to its Christian past visited by pilgrims take on great importance. They prove that faith is alive and well in Europe and lives on in Christians, to point where it leads them to a different continent to seek the legacy of their great elders.
