To my sweetest friend, Fr Giuseppe Calza, Archpriest of Zevio, I now send an affectionate greeting from the capital of Kordofan, and assure you that I carry you in my heart and have not at all lost hope that you will procure for me from your fertile flock some candidates of robust virtue like your parishioner Amalia Andreis whom I brought here from Verona, Rome and Cairo; she is happy to work for souls. I send my blessing to the clergy, nuns, and my friends in Zevio.

                                                                                                                                    + Daniel Comboni

“Fr Stanislao is an excellent and expert truffle-finder; with his holiness and knowledge and prudence he is able to prepare good little delicacies for God, seeking out and presenting to him the hearts of these little African boys”.

+ Daniel Ep.pus Claudiopolitan. i.p.i.

Vic.us Ap.licus Africae Centralis