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Is that how you understand your role as procurator, when it is a question of the lives of your confreres and of the Christians, and of the very existence of the missions?

The Holy Father wanted it and asked me to do this service for the Church. What will become of me? I don’t know. However, if I were to perish in the doing of my duty, I would commend myself to you, my dear children, before God, for him to forgive my sins.

Letter to the Councils of the Work of the Propagation of the Faith (30 January 1887)
As I informed you three months ago, I have entrusted Reverend Father Deguerry, superior of the Society of Missionaries of Algiers, with the care of all the details concerning our missions, reserving for myself only the higher jurisdiction and direction. Accordingly, I wished to prepare in a practical way a peaceful future for our missionary endeavours for the day when I will be taken away from them by death, a day that can no longer be far away.