I recently spent just over two weeks in Zambia. It was my first time ever to that country where I had long held a desire to visit. Zambia, or, more correctly, the Republic of Zambia, is one of several African countries that are completely landlocked.

Bishop Brésillac was a missionary in India for twelve years in an area where the challenges for doing mission were numerous and demanding. He felt strongly the need to look at the experience of Jesus' Apostles and the early Christians. In his youth he had been marked by the reading of a book on sacred history that outlined this experience. In 1843 he wrote to his bishop, Bonnand: "I would like that we employ all possible means at once and especially that we do not neglect those means that come closest to the simple evangelical preaching of the Gospel of the Apostles ... "(December 1843).