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Circular Letter (November 1871)
I leave aside the Mission Seminary, the retirement home for our elderly and even our orphanages. Nonetheless, they have already given us a priceless harvest, since they have saved over eight hundred children for heaven. Eight hundred others, mainly Christian, are today growing and learning how to work and live morally. What I tell you, Gentlemen, is not to make you prideful. I tell you this to give you the courage required in the midst of hardships, trials, contradictions, persecutions and calumnies with which our ministry is assailed from every corner in these sad times. It reminds you that our services, which often we believe sterile, are not in fact so, thanks to the hand of God that sustains us and rectifies our mistakes by his kindness. Therefore, take courage!

Circular Letter (November 1871)
Gentlemen and dear Co-workers,
Today, I fulfil a joyful duty in communicating to you the Brief whereby our Most Holy Father Pope Pius IX graciously replies to the Synod Letter in which all the clergy of this diocese renewed the homage of its dedication and obedience to His Holiness and its faith in the divine prerogatives of the Holy See. You will see with joy, Gentlemen, that this testimony to our filial piety consoled momentarily the heart of our Father in the midst of his painful heartache.