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514How is, and where is, our Beatrix: Hortense Thayer? 600 I was going towrite to her asking for prayer, but when I got here and I didn’t know where toaddress the letter. If you write to her, M. Caesar, send her my greetings, from thebottom of my Christian heart.How is our dearest brother Stephen? 601 „Salutem ei dico in Domino NostroJesu Christo, in unitate Ecclesiae Sanctae Catholicae, Apostolicae Rimanae.‖If you, M. Caesar, marry, even it be at the end of the earth, and do notinvite me, I will come uninvited ―per pedes apostolorum.‖ If you should, bychance, be traveling to Rome, and do not invite me to go with you, I will comeuninvited ―per pedes Apostolorum.‖I will finish with my scratching, once more asking for a letter, and before aletter, that you a sincere and fervent prayer for me that the merciful God wouldgive me the necessary graces to make a very good confession and that, havingconfessed, I may amend my life in our Lord Jesus Christ. In his grace, may healways watch over our kindest brother and benefactor, M. Caesar.xThis sentence is crossed. out in the letter.BogdanJański 602600 Hortense Thayer, nee Bertrand - the wife of Amadeus Thayer, a regular benefactress of B.Jański and his work.601 Stephen Grotkowski - brother of John, the newly converted Polish Protestant. Hence the Latinsentence about his unity with the Roman Catholic Church.602 The rough draft of this letter is preserved in CKR; Mss 8544-8546; pp. 285-288.