Saint Augustin Basilica

The Basilica of St Augustine is a Roman Catholic basilica and seasoned-cathedral positioned in Annaba, Algeria. It is dedicated to Saint Augustine of Hippo. The basilica is underneath the circumscription of the Diocese of Constantine. Construction of the basilica commenced in 1881 and finished on March 29, 1900, though the church changed into not committed till April 24, 1914. The statue of St. Augustine within the basilica incorporates considered one of his arm bones. In faith, a relic usually includes the bodily stays of a saint or the non-public effects of the saint or honored person preserved for functions of veneration as a tangible memorial.

It changed into built not far from the remains of the Basilica Pacis constructed by way of Saint Augustine, where he died while the metropolis become besieged by using Vandals. The Vandals have been a massive East Germanic tribe or group of tribes that first appear in history inhabiting present-day southern Poland. Some later moved in huge numbers, together with maximum considerably the group which successively established kingdoms inside the Iberian Peninsula and then North Africa in the fifth century.