Meanwhile, in the Congo

The original chapel, rebuilt after the fire The town of Linzolo, located 25 km south west of Brazzaville was the chosen site between 1881 and 1883 for the founding of the oldest Catholic Mission in the Congo. The town is in the middle of an agricultural area - the region’s inhabitants, the Teke people, together with the Lari and the Sundi grow manioc, yams, maize, avocado, safou and ground nuts. The Mission of Linzolo was founded by Monsignor Prosper Augouard, the Catholic Biship of the Congo on January 22, 1884. Father Augouard first established a temporary camp while he negotiated the purchase of the land with the local chiefs,Ngandziamo and Mubimunu Kahunga. After lengthy discussions they agreed on the deal and to finalize the agreement, a peace treaty was signed with the chiefs of the Pool region who symbolically buried their weapons on the mission’s central square on February 25, 1885. The grotto The first chapel was completed in 1885. It was the oldest building in the country ...