To Mrs Serafina

VI,3737

Best wishes for her name day — gift of a new Life of St Teresa

Turin, 12 October 1882

Esteemed Madam Cooperator,

As your Name Day approaches, and you have the grace of bearing the name of the glorious Seraphina of Carmel, whose third centenary is being celebrated this year, I feel compelled to write to you to wish you the Lord's choicest blessings.

During Holy Mass on that solemn day, I will pray to the glorious Saint, with my beloved young people for you and your loved ones so that she may obtain for you from the Lord good health, a happy life and, finally, beautiful paradise. In the hope that you will appreciate it, I thought it appropriate to send you a brief summary of the life of Saint Teresa, published recently by one of our priests, and I hope that reading it will be of spiritual benefit and real pleasure for you.

Meanwhile, entrusting my numerous abandoned young people to your prayers, charity and generosity, I am pleased to express my particular esteem and heartfelt gratitude

Your Countess’s

Most obliged and devoted servant

Fr John Bosco