29th July in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Since, for special reasons, the ordination must take place without delay, I would also ask that I be dispensed of the need for the assistance of two bishops for the ordination ceremony, because of the impossibility that the quarantine imposed in Tunisia following the cholera outbreak places on the arrival of the two other prelates in this country.

26th July in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

You will also notice how, almost constantly from the start, one confrere after another at the Tanganyika Mission has failed to obey that essential Rule of our Society which is to be always three confreres together, except in rare and exceptional cases.