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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?

Your excellent son, your parishioner, received the supreme honour of shedding his blood for God’s sake and for the love of his fellows.

Our Lady of Africa is, indeed, not only the Queen of the present and the future. She is also the Queen of the past, the Queen of Cyprian, Augustine, Optat, Fulgence, Felicity, Perpetua, the Doctors, the Pontiffs, the Martyrs, the Virgins who embalmed this noble soil with the perfume of their virtues and their blood.

This mission of Nyanza already has several hundred neophytes and 14 missionaries, not including the auxiliaries and the Brothers. It has three big mission stations: the first in Uganda, the second right at the southern end of Lake Nyanza and the third in Tabora.

For a long time now, I have not found an occasion to renew with your Eminence the relations which have remained particularly dear to me and which, at the time of my journey to London in 1888, thanks to your Eminence, has such a happy result for the resolution of the question of slavery according to the desire of the Holy Father.