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- ↑ "Au milieu des sollicitudes (16 February 1892)". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
- ↑ "Notre consolation (3 May 1892)". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
- ↑ "Notre consolation (3 May 1892)". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
Our consolation was great upon receiving the Letter in which You unanimously adhered, with the entire French episcopate, to Our Encyclical Au milieu des sollicitudes, and gave thanks for its publication, testifying in the noblest terms of the 'intimate union linking the bishops of France, especially the cardinals of the Holy Church, to the See of Peter.'
