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Letter to the Office of the Propagation of the Faith (December 1884)
Our missions in Kabylia and in the Sahara are constantly developing, as you will see in this report which I have the honour to send you. Previous reports made you aware of the progress of these missions and their way of operating. Today I shall tell you only of what has been achieved during this current year in our mission stations of Kabylia and the Sahara.

Lavigerie in december 1876 approves, after having retouched it, the prayer to Our Lady of Africa and imposes its recitation.
We trust that the maternal goodness of the Most Holy Virgin will receive these unceasing supplications and obtain for our Works the fruitfulness that can only come from God.

Letter to the cardinal prefect of the Propaganda (24th December 1884)
I consider I should be lacking in my duty if I did not inform Your Eminence that the government of France, through the good offices of its ambassador to the Holy See, has just entrusted to me the church of Saint Nicolas-des-Lorrains and the adjoining house, so as to set up a procure for the Society of the Missionaries of Algiers.

Conference given at Rome in the church of the Gesu (22nd December 1888)
If I cannot treat this grave question with all the details it would require, I will at least say what is necessary, and will try to make up for the rest by a clarity that, I hope, will enlighten your minds. And first of all, is there any obligation for the Christian peoples, for you Catholics, in the measure possible, to come to the aid of populations so cruelly, oppressed? On this point, there cannot be any doubt to the eyes of faith. It is the law itself of love, of Christian solidarity, that is to say, of the whole Gospel.