Garcia Moreno desired an intimate union with the Catholic Church, declaring that she must be the foundation of the social order, and that her teaching must be the guide for all human laws and institutions.
The Last Letter of Garcia Moreno written two days before his death
The Last Letter of Garcia Moreno
Gabriel Garcia Moreno 1821-1875
Garcia Moreno was remarkable for his piety. Though pressed by the incessant and weighty cares of office, he always found time to hear Mass every morning and to say his Rosary every evening. Before undertaking any important action, he would go before the Blessed Sacrament to draw light from the Fountain of Wisdom. In fact it was just after leaving the church that be received the fatal thrust of the assassin’s dagger.
This religious fervor gave birth in him to a great zeal for God’s glory and a strong devotion to Christ’s Vicar. Suffice it to say that when there was question of concluding a Concordat with the Holy See, he sent his ambassador to Rome with a document that had nothing written on it but his signature. As an act of trust in the Pontiff Pius IX, he desired that the Holy Father should fill out the blank sheet with whatever seemed to him just and conducive to the good of the Church and the true well-being of the …