Kategoria: CML200

A young priest once came to me from France, wanting to become a missionary; do you know what I wrote on his travel warrant? Visum pro martyrio, a visa for martyrdom, and I said to him: ‘Aren’t you afraid?’ ‘I came only for that,’ he replied. And in fact, children, this year he died a martyr.

Quite the contrary, by all means possible, they have to be inspired by a great love of the African race, a great zeal for its improvement and for the destruction of slavery of which they themselves have been the sad victims.

Through this sale and the antiques, we need to aim at selfsufficiency for the upkeep of the house.

Where better to place my hope than in the rebirth I received there and in the mercy of him who washed me in his blood, while the minister was washing me in the holy water?

I have the honour to inform Your Eminence of my intention to establish a small noviciate of the Society of the Missionaries of Algiers in the diocese of Malines.