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New Zealand Tablet, 25 August 1921, Page 13

I try my best to carry without much complaining and in a practical way, for my poor soul's sanctification, the long foreseen miseries of the disease, which, after all, is a providential agent to detach the heart from all earthly affection and prompts much, the desire of a Christian soul to be united, the sooner the better with Him who is its only life.—Father Damien (in one of his last letters).