“I was extremely pleased to have come yesterday to visit your hospital for the destitute and dying people. I do not hide that I was deeply impressed and moved as the sight of so much misery but also of so much generosity on the part of your little band of religious ladies. Almighty God must look on them with love and pleasure. Great, exceedingly great will be the reward of the good nuns in heaven. Our Lord inspired you when asking for this hospital and your nuns have been inspired when accepting it so generously. Let us hope this is a standing lesson of charity for all to see. The lay people who help you are so admirable. God bless them abundantly! That’s all I can say, for no reward on earth will repay them.”
Archbishop Ferdinand Périer, S.J. Letter to Mother Teresa on October 1, 1952 in Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light ed. Brian Kolodiejchuk (New York: Doubleday, 2007) 145.