Parish side, things are much better, you can easely imagine it, because you know that we have a new parish priest who this time is really, not only very nice, but very pious, very supernatural and you think well that it is to these last qualities that I attach the most value. In addition, he is very well with Father Générat, which would be one more reason to give me confidence, if he was needed.

I think of you. I have a very unconventional way of praying at the moment. But I believe I am in a state of offering and abandonment… Soon, the priest will to come and he brings Mum.

My dear Sister

I kept writing to you again and again. You got ahead of me! The seminarian G. was to announce the death of Elise to you. Then Mrs. B. asked me for your exact address.

Yes! events precipitated. Doctor Roux, powerless to treat Élise, in the room since October 15, asked me to take her to the Hospital in Auxerre for more in-depth examinations. It was around March 15th. She was due home for Easter, but her condition was getting worse. It was not possible, and on the 9th, at the end of the afternoon, she expired in her mother's arms.

The consternation, the emotion, were unanimous, parochial and regional. Father Générat presided over the office and quoted a few extracts from her letters (she wrote to him quite often, as he had known her since the age of 11.)

She had given her life for the brothers…! The seminarian G. told me: she takes her secret with her… (I suppose this life “given”).

In some time (a few years perhaps) I think that we will publish a brochure: “A Sainte from among us!”

I have a few writings, but it is obviously Father Générat who is spoiled for choice, because he has the most numerous.

I am sending you a notice written by the Parish priest of Châtel-Censoir in his parish bulletin. In some time you can return it to me. Thank you.

I offer you one of Elise’s last writings, found in a small notebook her mother gave me after death. Perhaps you can make it known to those around you.

Respectfully yours, Pastor Girard