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To avoid any problem now or in the future, and also to demonstrate my respect for the admirable zeal that your Congregation shows on the coasts of Zanzibar and Mozambique, I have determined that our Missionaries in the neighbourhood of the locations currently occupied by you, neither residence nor occupations of any kind.

This is the real foundation of the Church of Carthage, for this time I intend to do as the Jesuits did in Beirut and invest a good part of the funds, using only the interest, year after year. Take heart, we’re working for a great and noble cause!

Such extravagance in wasting the funds of the mission and of the poor is blameworthy and distressing, since it shows, as I mentioned before, how much the apostolic spirit is lacking in some of you and is being replaced by material concerns.

Concerning the material world, I have also a few serious remarks to make. The news which reaches you, my dear Sons, must show you how what is happening in France is becoming more and more menacing, vis-a-vis both society and, more particularly, religion.

I want to insist, my dear Sons, on begging you to remember that you are apostles; that you have gone into the interior of Equatorial Africa to save souls and establish the Kingdom of God.