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599us for a year. He possesses rare piety, and an interior life that is at once lofty andprofound, the likes of which I have not encountered among any of our emigrantpriests. His mental problems have vanished completely. He was not an ordinarymental illness; rather, a very interesting spiritual variety.Forgive me if I didn’t wait for your permission. I encouraged him to visityou in Endoume.Now about Rome: You must have had news from them recently. Theproject 761 presented to the Holy Father by Cardinal Odescalchi was not successful.May God’s will be done!They are not in the least discouraged. But Adam was very much disturbedby this 762 . I agree with the General of the Jesuits, that this might have beenpremature, and that there was no need to pursue the matter on quite such a loftylevel. And now, in spite of all this, we have to do it on our own, and with all ourmight! Hence, we must send others, while we can.Although, my dear brother Bohdan, you mentioned by name those forwhom you were sending support, I presume that you intended the 2,000 francs fortheir foundation, without sticking literally to the named recipients. I am writingthis, because we are sending not two, but three people; therefore, having no otherfunds, all three will have to share what is available. And perhaps, if only twoleave now, we may still send Joseph Hube later; for we will have no difficulty onhis father’s side 763 as I feared in which case, the father will live with us at the rueNotre Dame des Champs, as he did previously.I have not yet met Turowski. I know of him only through others, Edwardand Jerome. He has yet to be tested, whereas Hube is already sure, even very sure.Mickiewicz, especially, favours his departure, and thinks that he can be agreat help to our men in Rome. Indeed, aside from Semenenko, in none of us didconversion effect a deeper and more complete change than that to be seen in761 The establishment of a separate institute for Poles: the Polish College in Rome.762 A. Mickiewicz was deeply affected by the unfriendly welcome accorded to the Polish exiles,Semenenko and Kajsiewicz, in Rome, and especially by the fact that the important project of thePolish College was not accepted.763 Michael Hube.