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What were the first rules of the Society of Missionaries of Africa ?
Annual report to the Cardinal of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide (1st December1869)
In agreement with them we mapped out the first rules of their little society. The main guidelines
are the following:
1. They will form a society of missionaries intended solely for the apostolate among Muslim Arabs of Africa.
2. They will live in community and will always be three together.
3. From seminary, the novitiate, they will adopt the food, language, attire, and sleeping habits of the Arabs.
4. They will learn enough about medicine to treat sick people.

Instructions to Sisters for the foundation of the Ouadhias (2nd December 1877)
His Grace counsels Mother Salomé to exercise a great deal of charity for the Sisters of her Community. Mother Marie de Jésus is to give example in obedience and religious modesty.

Note to prepare steps to be taken before approaching the French Ambassador in Rome (1st December 1883)
Most Holy Father, they all share one desire: to advance on a sign from Your Holiness to dedicate themselves to the salvation of these poor nonbelieving peoples, bring them the Word of Life that they have not yet heard and die in serving them, knowing that those who give up everything they possess on earth for Our Lord will receive the hundredfold even here below in consolations and graces and then life eternal.

Letter to the missionaries of Equatorial Africa (30th November 1884)
My dear Sons,
I am writing today to all the mission posts in Equatorial Africa, and I do this for two reasons. Firstly, so that you do not think I have forgotten you or that my fatherly affection for you has diminished. In spite of the distance and in spite of the sometimes lengthy silences we maintain between us, I, for my part, am always greatly interested in all that happens to you.