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{{Verifiability|date=April 2025}}{{More sources|date=December 2024}}[[File:Venerable Geronimo.png|thumb|Venerable Geronimo by [[Louis-Adrien Berbrugger|Adrien Berbrugger]] (1859)]]
The alleged finding of human remains, designated '''San Geronimo''', in 1853 afforded striking confirmation of an incident recorded by a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[Benedictine]] named [[Diego de Haedo]], who published a [[topography]] and history of [[Algiers]] in 1612. Haedo sets forth the legend that a young [[Arab]] who [[Conversion to Christianity|had embraced Christianity]], and had been baptized with the name of Geronimo ("[[Jerome]]"), had been captured by a Moorish [[Privateer|corsair]] in 1569 and taken to [[Regency of Algiers|Algiers]]. 

The Arabs endeavoured to induce Geronimo to [[apostasy from Christianity|renounce Christianity]], but as he steadfastly refused to do so, he was condemned to death.  Bound hand and foot, he was thrown alive into a mould in which a block of concrete was about to be made. The block containing his body was built into an angle of the [[Fort of the Twenty-four Hours]], then under construction. According to [[Samuel Marinus Zwemer|Samuel M. Zwemer]], in 1853 the Fort of the Twenty-four Hours was demolished, and, in the very angle specified by Haedo, the skeleton of Geronimo was found. The bones were interred at St. Philippe, now the [[Ketchaoua Mosque]]. Liquid [[plaster of Paris]] was run into the mould left by the saint's body, creating a perfect model showing the features of the youth, the cords which bound him, and even the texture of his clothing. This model was said to be held in the museum formerly at [[Parc du Galland]], Mustapha Superior, [[Algiers]].

==References==
* {{cite book |first=Samuel M. (F.R.G.S.) |last=Zwemer |title=Call to Prayer |location=London |publisher=Marshall Brothers |date=1920s |page=14ff |url=http://www.radicaltruth.net/uploads/pubs/Zwemer-CalltoPrayer.pdf#page=7 |access-date=26 July 2017}}
** Zwemer may have been inspired by a reference found in {{cite book |first=John Reynell |last=Morell |title=Algeria: The Topography and History, political, social and natural of French Africa |url=https://archive.org/details/algeriatopograp00moregoog |location=London |date=1854}} (this book has not been checked).

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[[Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism from Sunni Islam]]
[[Category:History of Algiers]]
[[Category:People from Oran Province]]

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