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people and made little feasts inviting them to be present and baptize their children, or find by their prayers some remedies for their sick ones either of body or spirit.

Many of them testified to me how much my absence had grieved them, for they had no one who could console them or heal their consciences. Too, they were often wounded in spirit in the midst of a perverse nation, or were in a strange confusion of mind, when the enemies of the faith, with the French, sought to carry on war.

But let us return to the decision in regard