A desperate need for prayer: In the France of 1871, amid the ruins of the Franco-Prussian War and the turmoil of the Paris Commune, Father Debrabant felt the weight of a nation lost in unprecedented confusion. Faced with this landscape of institutional and moral crisis, he made a heartfelt appeal to the Sisters of the Holy Union to find in God the only possible anchor and in prayer the supreme strength to heal the world.

Born from the collaboration between the Sisters in Cameroon and the Anglo-Hibernian Area, a water sanitation project is bringing hope to the village of Baba 1 through the St. Monica Catholic Medical Center.

Published here in its integral version, the Founder’s letter urges his sisters to remain steady amidst the 1870 siege of Paris. He transforms political turmoil into a call for courage, proving that while regimes fall, faith remains the only unshakable rock.