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	;[24]: I do not have anything to tell you about Fiji or Rotuma. All I know is that Fathers Rouleaux and Bréhéret suffered greatly from hunger in Fiji and that Father Verne has left for Rotuma. As for Wallis and Futuna, everything is going wonderfully and Bishop Bataillon is about to establish a college.		;[24]: I do not have anything to tell you about Fiji or Rotuma. All I know is that Fathers Rouleaux and Bréhéret suffered greatly from hunger in Fiji and that Father Verne has left for Rotuma. As for Wallis and Futuna, everything is going wonderfully and Bishop Bataillon is about to establish a college.

	;[25]: This is a very long letter my dear brother and yet I feel that if I was in France, near to you, I would still have lots of things to tell you, but one must know how to limit oneself. Nevertheless, I still want to discuss some of my feelings with you and open my heart as you have done. How happy I am dear Henry, even in the midst of my sufferings! I would not change my situation for a throne, because every day God makes me understand even more the beauty of my calling and the price of the sufferings which go with it. Yes, this thought never leaves my mind. There is nothing as wonderful as the priesthood being practiced in the midst of the infidels. Even today, though I do not carry out any instruction or baptisms, though I am completely inactive, I count myself lucky to be able to lift my heart to God, recite the Holy Office, and offer the glorious Sacrifice in a land where, up until now, Satan has been the only one to be worshipped. I want to be able to say: I am expanding the boundaries of the Roman Catholic church. If God does not call you to an overseas mission listen to His voice with acceptance, submit to His will and do not try to go against it. There is a lot of good work to be done in Europe and it is important to maintain the spring which allows its excess water to flow away for other people, but if God has the good grace to call you to Mad[….]: in China or to Japan, Oh! Thank Him because that vocation is majestic. Unfortunately I fall short of the required level of virtues that such a pious ministry requires. Therefore I beg and entreat you to ask the Heavens to allow me some of that spirit which created the apostles, the spirit of humility, charity, self-denial, patience and oratory that animated the Clavers and the Spinolas and made their preaching fruitful. <ref> Saint Peter Claver and the blessed Carlo Spinola were Jesuit missionaries. Claver, Spanish in origin, arrived in Cartagena in Colombia in 1610, where he spent 54 years helping the black slaves. Not being able to abolish slavery, he did his best to comfort the victims of it. (cf. Internet: [www.multimedios.org/docs/d001428/]). He trained catechism teachers; he baptised and taught more than three hundred thousand black people. Spinola, an Italian, left in 1596 for Japan; after a series of misadventures he arrived in Nagasaki, where he founded a school of catechists and succeeded in converting and baptising around five thousand Japanese. During the persecution, which erupted in 1614, he continued his clandestine mission work, but was finally arrested and imprisoned. In 1622, with a large number of other Catholics, he was put to death. (cf. Internet [www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90926]).</ref>. I do not ask you to seek Mary’s love for me, that goes without saying, because especially here in Oceania Mary must carry all the responsibility of the mission which is especially consecrated to her. Those who do not have, for this kindly Mother, the love and confidence of a child, should not come here, or so it seems to me. But above all ask for humility for me. Pride can cross the oceans without difficulty and no matter how hard you try to hide yourself from it, it can always find its target.		;[25]: This is a very long letter my dear brother and yet I feel that if I was in France, near to you, I would still have lots of things to tell you, but one must know how to limit oneself. Nevertheless, I still want to discuss some of my feelings with you and open my heart as you have done. How happy I am dear Henry, even in the midst of my sufferings! I would not change my situation for a throne, because every day God makes me understand even more the beauty of my calling and the price of the sufferings which go with it. Yes, this thought never leaves my mind. There is nothing as wonderful as the priesthood being practiced in the midst of the infidels. Even today, though I do not carry out any instruction or baptisms, though I am completely inactive, I count myself lucky to be able to lift my heart to God, recite the Holy Office, and offer the glorious Sacrifice in a land where, up until now, Satan has been the only one to be worshipped. I want to be able to say: I am expanding the boundaries of the Roman Catholic church. If God does not call you to an overseas mission listen to His voice with acceptance, submit to His will and do not try to go against it. There is a lot of good work to be done in Europe and it is important to maintain the spring which allows its excess water to flow away for other people, but if God has the good grace to call you to Mad[….]: in China or to Japan, Oh! Thank Him because that vocation is majestic. Unfortunately I fall short of the required level of virtues that such a pious ministry requires. Therefore I beg and entreat you to ask the Heavens to allow me some of that spirit which created the apostles, the spirit of humility, charity, self-denial, patience and oratory that animated the Clavers and the Spinolas and made their preaching fruitful. <ref> Saint Peter Claver and the blessed Carlo Spinola were Jesuit missionaries. Claver, Spanish in origin, arrived in Cartagena in Colombia in 1610, where he spent 54 years helping the black slaves. Not being able to abolish slavery, he did his best to comfort the victims of it. (cf. Internet: [http://www.multimedios.org/docs/d001428/]). He trained catechism teachers; he baptised and taught more than three hundred thousand black people. Spinola, an Italian, left in 1596 for Japan; after a series of misadventures he arrived in Nagasaki, where he founded a school of catechists and succeeded in converting and baptising around five thousand Japanese. During the persecution, which erupted in 1614, he continued his clandestine mission work, but was finally arrested and imprisoned. In 1622, with a large number of other Catholics, he was put to death. (cf. Internet [http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90926]).</ref>. I do not ask you to seek Mary’s love for me, that goes without saying, because especially here in Oceania Mary must carry all the responsibility of the mission which is especially consecrated to her. Those who do not have, for this kindly Mother, the love and confidence of a child, should not come here, or so it seems to me. But above all ask for humility for me. Pride can cross the oceans without difficulty and no matter how hard you try to hide yourself from it, it can always find its target.

Merv at 07:40, 24 November 2010

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	;[29]: Post script. Remember me to Reverend Father Ogerdins and ask him to include me in his prayers. Let me know what has become of Father Boland who instructed me in the practice of retreat and Father Audouard who I knew in Lyon. Goodbye.		;[29]: Post script. Remember me to Reverend Father Ogerdins and ask him to include me in his prayers. Let me know what has become of Father Boland who instructed me in the practice of retreat and Father Audouard who I knew in Lyon. Goodbye.

	:San Cristobal, 19th July, the day of Saint Vincent de Paul, 1847.		:San Cristobal, 19th July, the day of Saint Vincent de Paul, 1847.

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Merv: New page: ==19th July 1847. - Father Xavier Montrouzier to his brother, Henri Montrouzier, SJ== ''Based on the document sent, APM ONC 208 Montrouzier (to his family).'' ''Translated by Mary Wil...