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Letter of greetings to the missionaries (3rd January 1881)
The purpose of these various measures has always been the same: to anticipate the storms which are breaking today, and which will quickly overwhelm us and to provide safe havens for the Society’s missionaries and at the same time a welcome boost to their zeal until the revolution passes.

Memorandum on the Evangelisation of Equatorial Africa (1st January 1878)
For the moment, I press on, so as not to compromise by delay a cause which I consider as one of the most important of the present time, for it is many centuries since the Church and the Holy See have had a more decisive and more favourable opportunity, if we know how to benefit from it, by striking a blow to decide the religious future of peoples and ensure the triumph of the apostolate.

In 1877, Lavigerie asked to be released from the diocese of Algiers to devote himself entirely to the mission in Africa as a Missionary of Africa. To this end, he represented himself as a White Father.