On Blessed Chavara

" ……… A man truly Christian, virtuous, most prudent and well- versed in sacred scriptures, most learned in the Syrian language, and who has shown himself in these circumstances by deed, most attached to the catholic religion and to the Holy Feast, so much so that the revolutionary, the intruders and others, even upto Baghdad, have tried very much, used every art and cunning, to the extend of offering to consecrate him Bishop,

to get him over to their side. If they had been able to get him, all books have followed him, since he enjoys with all great esteem, reverence and authority … My thought and request to your eminence is that, if it is judged convenient and if it is possible to consecrate him co-adjuster Bishop, he will certainly bring forth fruits much better than those of the Chaldean Patriaarch, because he is good, prudent and obedient " (Cf. Positio, 259).

Excerpts from the Letter of the Vicar Apostolic Baccinelli to the Sacred Congregation: