Bicentenary

2 December 1870                                     


To Juana Gratias: Estadilla Barcelona


My dear daughters: We are still detained in jail. Mercedes and Antonieta left from here on Tuesday, so they must have arrived on Thursday.

I must warn you that in cast you are called because of me to declare whether you form a religious congregation without authorization of the civil authorities, you have to answer:

1st: that you do not constitute a congregation.

2nd: that you neither have rules nor vows.

3rd: that you do not have superior authority other than the Pope, the bishop, the parish priest, and I am only your spiritual councillor.

4th: that you voluntarily engage in teaching and in the care of the sick.

5th: that you help one another in a voluntary association.

Upon receiving this, inform the others and those of Graus.

We hope that we will be released soon. We are fairly well.

Your affectionate father,

Fr. Francisco