Odette Prévost (17 July 1932 – 10 November 1995) was a French Roman Catholic nun, who was working as a teacher and a librarian when she was killed in Algiers en route to Mass.
She asked herself the question of the religious vocation, and thought first of all about Cistercian life, but then decided to follow the footsteps of Charles de Foucauld.
Recalled to France, where she worked among the Argenteuil laborious and disadvantaged population, she wanted to move back to Algiers, where she arrived in 1968, in the district of Kouba.
Desiring to better master language and culture, she moved to Rome in 1980 to study classical Arabic and Islamic sciences for two years.
Returning to Algiers, she joined the Diocesan Cultural Center "Glycines", where she was alternately librarian and teacher of Arabic.
She criticized the authorities and was rather often worried; but a few months before her death she had manifestly transformed herself, as another future martyr, the bishop of Oran, Pierre Claverie, noticed : "because when you risk your own life, you have to go to the essential. "
On 10 November 1995, at around 8:30 am, she went with another sister to attend mass when an Islamist terrorist came out of a car and shot her at point blank range.