Kategoria: A day with Lavigérie

Letter to the Superior General concerning catechist-doctors (5th January 1884)
Dear Father
As for the young people who will keep on arriving from Lille one after the other, I think it would be best to spread them out into the different mission posts where their presence would be most useful, as in Kabylia, at Les Attafs, or elsewhere.

Letter to Mother Marie Claver on Fidelity to Spiritual Combat (12 January 1888)
My Dear Daughter in Our Lord,
I could not repeat to you too often that the essence of the spiritual life, and consequently of perfection, lies in belonging to God with the whole of one’s will.

Letter to Father Charbonnier, Superior general (17th January 1883)
Dear Father,
We really do not understand what is making you bitter and upsetting you in this way, making you see the situation of our work in so distorted a manner and in such a dim light.

Letter to Mgr Livinhac on the finances for the coming caravan (15 January 1885)
Dear Monsignor,
I have just received the answer of the Councils for the Work of Propaganda Fide to the latest requests I had addressed to them in order to cover the travel expenses of the caravans for the four missions of Equatorial Africa.

Report sent to the Propagation of the Faith of Lyon (15th January 1883)
Our operations have so far not been troubled, but the government, jealous of the influence they have and worried especially by the thought that we might ‘clericalise’ Kabylia and become its great electors, is preparing to compete with us.