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644 BENEDICT VADAKKEKARA Document III is Mgr Hartmann's letter to Fr General of the Carmelites, for– mally reporting to him the manner in which the individual missionaries would be taking leave of the Vicariate of Bombay. In his capacity as the one responsi– ble for the Vicariate, he makes known to the General that all the Carmelite Fathers in the Vicariate, with the exct:ptions of Joseph Lopez and Thomas, who were the procurator and the vice procurator respectively 34 , were relieved of all their commitments in Bombay and that they were in the position to leave for Malabar 35 • As a matter of fact Fr Cyril had already taken leave of Bombay. Mgr Hartmann was unable to say when Fr Andrew would be proceeding for his destination, even though he was already on his way to Bombay after leaving his station 36 . The Bishop was loud in his praise for Fr Andrew's pastoral zeal. He also observed that he was able to understand Fr Chrysostom's headstrong re– luctance to take up work in Malabar. Without the least hesitation he recom– mended that this Carmelite missionary's desire to return to Europe be re– spected37. 3 4 The proposal of opening an hospice or "procura" for the Carmelite Fathers had ini– tially found favour with the Propaganda as well as with the Apostolic Administrator. How– ever it would not be long before the project of the procura would prove to be a stillborn idea. 35 Monumenta Anastasiana, II, 748, Fr Hyacinth of the Most Holy Conception to Cardi– nal Fransoni, Rome 12 December 1253, seeks the approval of the Propaganda of the provi– sions that the Carmelite General Definitory had taken as regards the Order's Bombay Mis– sion : ''Nel supplicare frattanto l'eminenza vostra affinche si degni di approvare queste deli– berazioni, e di ordinare le disposizioni opportune per la traslocazione dei missionari carme– litani scalzi che sono addetti al vicariato apostolico di Bombay in aiuto di quelli del Malabar assegnando a due di loro in Bombay quell'ospizio e quella chiesa che a questa s. congrega– zione sara piu benevista...". Frs Joseph Lopez and Thomas were the ones designated to man the hospice in Bombay. 36 Monumenta Anastasiana, III, 378, Mgr Hartmann to Cardinal Fransoni, Bombay 12 April 1855: "Pater Andreas sicut stationem militarem sine permissione reliquit, sic sine per– missione in Europam profectus est. Ex epistola mihi scripta putabam, eum [reverendissimi patris] generalis picentiam] seu obedientiam habuisse". 37 MonumentaAnastasiana, III, 374-375, Mgr Hartmann to Cardinal Fransoni, Bombay 2 April 1855: "Reverendi patres Chrysostom et Irenaeus nullo modo, sive a me, sive ab epis– copo carmelitano in Malabru, induci poterant, ut illuc vadant... Pater Chrysostomus adhuc in sua statione militari laborat, eo quod prius responsum a Roma habere voluerit, quam resig– naret stationem". Monumenta Anastasiana, III, 388, Cardinal Fransoni to Mgr Hartmann, Rome 16 May 1855: "Circa i due padri Giovanni Crisostomo ed Ireneo, ove persistono di non volersi recare al Malabar, Ii faccia partire onninamente dalla missione per l'Europa, co– me gia le notificai, esigendo autorevolmente l'osservanza delle pontificie disposizioni".