Vincent Lebbe, CM, Saint Paul of modern China, prophetic voice

“ Our brothers of the old world should be taught  that China is the country of the future, of the illimited possibilities. That if, as it might be, it resists to the actual crisis and survives to it, it is called to play an important and unexpected part in the world ; and that the fate of the Holy Church on earth, to consider things humanly, is closely bound to the question of its evangelisation  which must not be delayed  any longer. ” Thus  wrote (pdf) Vincent LEBBE in 1920, condensing thus all his ideal of missionary life.