"The Lord bless you: I have no doubt about the subject of this letter: the foundation in Covadonga. How great is the gift that the Blessed Virgin gives to the Teresian Association and how we should correspond to such great favor!

I confess candidly that for me this favor from Our Lady exceeds whatever I may express in word or in writing.

Covadonga is for the Association something especial, unique, and for me more then especial and unique.  

The Holy Cave will always be the true cradle of our beloved Work.

Before the image of the Santina (Our Lady of Covadonga) I prayed, planned, saw, so to speak, the development of the Work (...)

In fact, seven years of life in that blessed precinct go a long way, and everything revolved around the ideal of my life, which emerged and crystallized looking at the Santina.

My many or few, better or worse writings of the time say it all.

My friends and knowledge of that time still remember the subject of my conversations about my projects.

There is no need to ponder upon how Our Lady of Covadonga is venerated and loved. It is a love that translates into all manifestations of Teresian life.

After all this, can we state that it is a great gift for the Association to have a house in Covadonga?

And if we add to the above the difficulties always presented to anyone who tried to enter into that precinct, we have to recognize as extraordinary the favor which the Blessed Virgin gives us by bringing us next to the Holy Cave.

And how Our Queen and Lady has arranged everything for the Association to live soon in its family home!

The venerable prelate and the illustrious Council have been providential instruments in this task, and the exchanged letters show the keenest interest from all.

We will, God willing, go to Covadonga very soon, and we go convinced that the Blessed Virgin is leading us. Will we be able to reciprocate such extraordinary finesse?

Let us begin by giving thanks and, apart from what each one may tell our Lady, in every house everyone must know the news of the day when work begins, the travel of the leading team, inauguration, etc., and the house of Oviedo should be the one to communicate all this news, so that in the boarding schools, everyone may publicly give thanks to the Blessed Virgin and celebrate all that relates to the house of Covadonga, so that this way, devotion to the house of La Santina may take root.

It would be desirable that the Teresians and students of the boarding school of Oviedo invite all the other houses of the Association so that they may send some memory that would witness the love they profess to the new house, and we wish that Cooperators, Past Pupils, Missionary youth and protectors be represented.

From now onwards we must pray for the reverend bishop, the Council and the people that somehow contributed to the existence of that blessed house.

On another occasion I will, with God's favor, prepare a program or regulations for the new house, and will explain what I understand it to be and also how they the Teresians residing in the house of Covadonga are to live.

This is all for today. I send you a blessing and leave you in the Divine Heart."