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The sacrifice has been accomplished, the ties have been broken and I belong only to you. I only hope for one joy alone and that is to bring you the heavenly gifts and see you accept them.

It would no longer simply be the expression of the Doctor of Carthage, ‘Blood of martyrs, seed of Christians’; the blood of your sons from then on was visibly the inexhaustible source of the African apostolate!

Your three martyred sons are alive! They live in God, for whose love they shed their innocent blood. They live forever in the grateful memory of the Church, their Mother – that their sacrifice honoured so greatly.

I can tell that your hearts enlightened by faith were elated with holy joy, but that your eyes shed tears. I would not accuse those tears of weakness. Mary wept for Jesus on Calvary and Jesus wept for Lazarus, for he loved him. How could I forbid a father, a mother, to grieve their son?