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We are falling back into pagan times, most Holy Father, and we can certainly do nothing better than follow the example of the Apostles and Martyrs if we wish once more to save the world from damnation.

To die to oneself is to leave the thoughts, the ideas of the world: it is to leave, not precisely sin, for it always escapes human frailty, but to leave the habit of sin.

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.