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	;[39]: What do you think I did with the first bunch of grapes harvested at Tonga? Gave it away? Preserved it? No, neither. I reverently harvested it, pressed it in a very clean cloth, and after clarifying the juice, used it to say Holy Mass. It was 1 January 1844. I was entirely alone that day, my confrère being absent, with no one to whom I could express my New Year's wishes, while you, amid your many friends, spent the day in gladness. Thus I found myself ''[p. 23]'' entirely alone, six thousand leagues from my friends. I could not make them hear my most sincere wishes, yet my heart needed to pour itself out. What was I to do? I celebrated for everyone - friends, relatives, and benefactors in France - and entrusted the One who belongs to every time and place with conveying my wishes to them. May they be fulfilled according to my desires. You will be happy, perfectly happy, upon the earth where we probably shall not see one another again, but happier still in heaven, where I hope we shall meet one day never to be separated.		;[39]: What do you think I did with the first bunch of grapes harvested at Tonga? Gave it away? Preserved it? No, neither. I reverently harvested it, pressed it in a very clean cloth, and after clarifying the juice, used it to say Holy Mass. It was 1 January 1844. I was entirely alone that day, my confrère being absent, with no one to whom I could express my New Year's wishes, while you, amid your many friends, spent the day in gladness. Thus I found myself ''[p. 23]'' entirely alone, six thousand leagues from my friends. I could not make them hear my most sincere wishes, yet my heart needed to pour itself out. What was I to do? I celebrated for everyone - friends, relatives, and benefactors in France - and entrusted the One who belongs to every time and place with conveying my wishes to them. May they be fulfilled according to my desires. You will be happy, perfectly happy, upon the earth where we probably shall not see one another again, but happier still in heaven, where I hope we shall meet one day never to be separated.

	;[40]: May God guide the ''Adelphe''<ref>The French editor corrects this to the ''Adolphe''. This ship carried Fathers Jean-Baptiste Bréhéret, Philippe Calinon, and Jean-Victor Favier and Brothers Annet Pérol and Jean Raynaud from Tahiti to Wallis, where Bataillon embarked with them to “strengthen” the Tonga mission and establish a new mission in Fiji (cf. doc. 328, § 1 and n. 1, and § 12). The ''Adolphe'' called at Tonga from 12 to 27, or possibly 31, July 1844 (cf. docs. [[Girard0312\|312]], § 14; Girard0338\|338]], § 1 and n. 1). Grange probably entrusted this letter to the captain of the ''Adolphe'' at that time.</ref> safely amid the waves, may it carry my letter to you as quickly as possible and bring me letters from you, my dear friends. Write to me whatever you wish; only write to me. Pray for me.		;[40]: May God guide the ''Adelphe''<ref>The French editor corrects this to the ''Adolphe''. This ship carried Fathers Jean-Baptiste Bréhéret, Philippe Calinon, and Jean-Victor Favier and Brothers Annet Pérol and Jean Raynaud from Tahiti to Wallis, where Bataillon embarked with them to “strengthen” the Tonga mission and establish a new mission in Fiji (cf. [[Girard0328\|doc. 328]], § 1 and n. 1, and § 12). The ''Adolphe'' called at Tonga from 12 to 27, or possibly 31, July 1844 (cf. docs. [[Girard0312\|312]], § 14; [[Girard0338\|338]], § 1 and n. 1). Grange probably entrusted this letter to the captain of the ''Adolphe'' at that time.</ref> safely amid the waves, may it carry my letter to you as quickly as possible and bring me letters from you, my dear friends. Write to me whatever you wish; only write to me. Pray for me.

	:Farewell.		:Farewell.

Merv: Created page with "==26 February and approximately 26 July 1844 - Father Jérôme Grange to Father Nicoud, parish priest at Saint-Clair near Condrieu, Rhône; Father Villerd, teacher at Saint-Jodard near Roanne, Loire; Father Fond at Les Chartreux, Lyon; and Father Duplay, superior of the major seminary of Lyon, Tonga== ''Based on the original, APM OC 208 (Tonga), Grange.'' Six sheets of “Bath” paper, comprising twenty-four pages, twenty-three of which are written; the twenty-fou..."

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Created page with "==26 February and approximately 26 July 1844 - Father Jérôme Grange to Father Nicoud, parish priest at Saint-Clair near Condrieu, Rhône; Father Villerd, teacher at Saint-Jodard near Roanne, Loire; Father Fond at Les Chartreux, Lyon; and Father Duplay, superior of the major seminary of Lyon, Tonga== ''Based on the original, APM OC 208 (Tonga), Grange.'' Six sheets of “Bath” paper, comprising twenty-four pages, twenty-three of which are written; the twenty-fou..."

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