A missionary is a “man of the Word”
In the first half of the last century the Comboni Missionaries in Africa had produced – in addition to specialized studies disseminated in various articles for magazines and books – 63 grammars, 88 vocabularies, 114 catechisms, 23 books of Sacred History , 54 prayer books, 137 school texts: syllabaries, reading books, arithmetic, history, geography, etc. […]