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Seventeenth point. His desire to convert england and switzerland

Her answer on the seventeenth point was :

It is well known that our Blessed Founder had a great desire to go to England and there labour for the conversion of that nation, a matter which he had greatly at heart, and for which, as he says in one of his writings, he prayed daily, fervently desiring that it would please God to gather this lost sheep into His arms and bring her back to His fold.

I have some recollection of having heard our Blessed Founder express a wish to spend a year in preaching in one of the Swiss Cantons. And this is true, &c.

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