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My dear Sons, I cannot but acknowledge the protection of God and glorify him with you! Give thanks to him, since it is to him that you owe your existence and are constituted in a permanent way.

Moreover, to whom would I have entrusted these Works, if not to you, who, in the first place, responded to my appeal when I found myself alone with my heavy task?

It is with this aim that the Apostolic Institute for Young Negroes has been founded. It is therefore in this institute that the ultimate fate of the African missions lies.

This, your Lordship, is the information that I thought would be of interest to the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide and which I have the honour to bring to your knowledge today.

Before they were assigned, these vicariates had been offered to the older congregations which were already established in Africa, and it was only on their refusal that the Society of the Missionaries of Algiers was entrusted with them.