Show missionary dvork in northern africa missionary work has leen inched with many for fear of arousing mohammedan tho north african races anro slow to change but converted havo oftentimes proved fervent in lie faith to the very death in 1510 a very young arab by was made prisoner and as gironimo hen about eight he was recovered by relatives but subsequently ho ic turned to tho in 1569 ho was laran and sent to algiers Ite fusing to abjure christianity lio wa to bo thrown into a mold in which a block of concrete w u about to be made and the block containing his body was built into a fort then boin constructed cons trusted the exact spot was indicated by a chronicler who expressed tho hope that gods biaco may ono day extricate nimo from this place and hia body with those of oilier martyrs blood lia lias s consecrated country on december 1853 the fort was dismantled tho bones were found as indicated and plaster being poured into lie cavity an exact cast was obtained not only of the mar arys features but of the of hii clothes and tho print of the cords that had bound him this inay be seen in tho museum of algiers Geronin fox benoi lie now in ft insirilo tomb n tho cathedral |