“The news that you announce to me fills me with joy to the bottom of my soul. Never has news so pleased me, the mandarins will never experience the same. The grace of martyrdom, of which I am very unworthy, has been, from my earliest childhood, the object of my most ardent wishes. I have specially requested it during the holy sacrifice of the Mass.”
Written by the Saint on October 14, 1833, three days before his execution by strangulation.
