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In 1880, the Dicastery for Evangelization establishes two missionary centres in the Congo and entrusts them to the Missionaries of Lavigerie.

It had been invited to do so by the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide, which could not find any other religious congregation willing to face the perils and enormous expense of these new missions.

In this regard, my dear Children, I am happy to announce that I have been able to fulfil my desire and that of many of you, to have in Rome a house of your Society and a procurator of your undertakings.

In 1882, a Circular letter from Lavigerie to the clergy of the dioceses of Algiers and Tunisia on the floods that are desolating Italy and ordinance prescribing a collection for the victims of these disasters.

You will no longer think of yourselves, of your comforts, your habits, your whims; everything will vanish before the great thought of the holy work with which our Lord associates you in the present time, and the endless reward that he promises you in eternity.