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212 BENEDICT VADAKKEKARA had shown himself too emboldened and exercised unhealthy influence on his companions 47 • Mgr Jacopi was going out of the way in being solicitous for the No– vitiate and the Study; he was ever disposed to furnish them with all the necessaries 48 • He and the Lector struck up quite early a friendship and exchanged confidences. With frankness they shared between them the various everyday problems that cropped up in the Mission. Everything was promising well. To all intents Fr Louis too was enjoying himself 4 9 • Mgr Jacopi had a clear idea of what he wished to achieve. He wanted in the course of time to establish also a seminary at Sardhana, where young Indians from the three Capuchin jurisdictions could be trained to become diocesan priests. The superiors of these ,Missions were to select preferably "children of long-standing Christians" and send them to this institution. The same yardstick was to be employed in the selection of candidates for the Novitiate of Mussoorie meant for .young men pf European origin 50 • •; 47 APCapTusc Missione Indostan, Incarto I, Mgr Jacopi to Fr Louis, Agra January 1885. He did not go back to his family but went to stay with the friars of Sardhana. 48 APCapTusc, Missione Indostan, Incarto I, Mgr Jacopi to Fr Louis, Agra 31 De– cember 1883: the Lector's proposal to have a refectory for the friars was promptly granted. He was fully at liberty either to have new tables made or he could take the tables from the dining hall of the Brothers of the Third Order. The Guardian himself had earlier put forward the same suggestion. APCapTusc, Missione Indostan, Incarto I, Mgr Jacopi to Fr Louis, Agra 16 February 1884: "Credo che V.P. e Studenti abbiano tutto il bisognovole, ma se cosf non fosse, tanto adesso che in futuro, La prego a non mancare di farmelo sapere, che io provedero ai bisogni''. 49 APCapTusc, Missione Indostan, Incarto I, Mgr Jacopi to Fr Louis, Agra 2 Octo– ber 1884: "Ho ricevuto con grandissimo piacere, la sua in risposta alla mia. Cio che Ella mi dice, io lo sapevo; ma cio che m'indusse a temere, che fossero vere le ciarle vi fu, che quando V.P. stava male mi disse, c'era male morale ma che in tre o 4 ·mesi tutto sarabbe finito. Sentendo poi che nel Gennaio se ne sarebbe andato, io natural– mente credevo .che fo~se vero. Bene, all right... Cangiando le circostanze, le condizioni m'imbrogliono e sono causa di litigi, malcontenti, e mormorazioni. Se i Padri ragionassero e si adattassero, 'il caso sarebbe diverso." APCapTusc, Missione Indostan, Memorie, 93: Fr Louis to E_lisa [a friend], Mussoorie October 1883: with his reaching India all his sorrows had· turned into joy. "Il vocabolo, soffrire, era appropriatissimo prima che ·andassi a Roma, ed ho passate delle giornate piene di afflizioni; ma dopo stretto il nodo, mi sono trovato sempre piu contento...". 50 APCapTusc, Missione Indostan, Mgr Jacopi Relazione to Mgr Agliardi, Agra 9 February 1885, delineates a project for the three Capuchin vicariates: "la. Si fabbrichi un Collegetto a Sardhana per educare giovani indigeni allo stato ecclesiastico, affatto