Nigera to Mother Mary - from redemptorists

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2023-01-25/477 + CATHOLIC MISSION ONITSHIA. SOUTHER NIGERIA. 5TH March 1936. My dear Sister Mary. I hope you will pardon me for my long delay in replying to you most welcome letter last Xmas. It was a very great happiness to hear from you again and to hear such good reports on your work. I hope Our Dear Lord will continue to bless your little company till He sees it in the midst of the active life of the missionary world. I was expecting you second letter as promised and this partly explains my delay. AA yet I do not know much about your position, but I take it that you are the nucleus of a great Medical Missionary Body- a body which my experience of this of this Mission has taught me is a very great need, There is nothing I would appreciate more than to have a body of Religious momen who are qualified and authorized to run a Medical Mission in all its aspects and details. You probably have heard of some of my experiences of these experiments of the Medical Missions run by a combination of Religious and lay people. With all the good will in the world on both sides, the position is fraught with many delicacies and difficulties. anwa has had its baptism of trails- trails is hardly the word- satan's vendella would be more suitable! Emekuku has also had its share, but the difficulties are in great parts surmounted. I am blessed in having there an excellent doctor who puts the Mission work before any personal inconvenience. The ideal thing would be a Society such as yours to take over every aspect of the Medical Mission - doctors and nurses all of one mind, with one common purpose and one common obedience. I could enter into many delails, but I do not care to write them. If I were talking to you I would speak more freely. But I am convinced that your Society is the idial one for A Medical Mission. I wish your Society every blessing and hope its members will grow rapidly and that you and your daughters will spread to many Missions and do immense work for souls through your medical labours. Our celebrations of the golden Jubilee of the Mission and of the opening of the Cathodesal mission and