Ranavalona I had persecuted Christians, so it was difficult for missionaries to found the Church in Antananarivo. In 1861, Prince Rakoto (Radama II) had proclaimed religious freedom after the queen's death. Fr. Cazet, Apostolic Vicar of Antananarivo, had faced many challenges.

as Jesus said, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me" (Mk 8,34). These included the "Imerina Lodge No. 310" and the colonization (1896). These trials, however, strengthened the faith and allowed Christians to hold on to their Catholic identity. Show on the history of the Church in Madagascar, with Fr. Abdon Rafidison, Rector of the Theologian - Faliarivo - Antananarivo