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While they are everywhere exposed to injustice, insult, calumny, persecution, and soon perhaps a bloody persecution, they live in peace under the protection of Saint Louis and that of all the great Saints and Holy Martyrs of Carthage.

The most serious deficiency that I find in the temporal point of view is the combining of the functions of the Bursar with those of Superior.

I will begin this Comments Report, which I leave to the Fathers and Brothers of St. Louis of Carthage, by congratulating them on the spirit of union and fraternal charity, which seemed to me to reign among them.

No, my dear Brethren, their fanaticism, if this can be reproached of them, is to sacrifice everything here below, without excepting anything, their affection, their hopes, their wealth, their lives even, in order to carry out a great patriotic and Christian duty.

What we need, therefore, I repeat, is to be penetrated with the spirit of faith, and behind these sorrows, ignorance, and infamy, to see only souls redeemed by Our Lord and marked by His divine seal.