In a letter to the Cardinal for the occasion, the Holy Father recalls the witness of the “enterprising” Dominican “missionaries,” who courageously “undertook a long trip, surmounting “innumerable difficulties,” to take the Gospel to the people of the Eastern part of the Island of Timor, colonized in the 16th century by the Portuguese, so much so that the country was known as Portuguese Timor. “It is right and opportune that this event be recalled appropriately,” wrote the Pontiff.
En una carta al purpurado para esta ocasión, el Santo Padre recuerda el testimonio de los “misioneros emprendedores” dominicos que con “valentía realizaron un largo viaje” superando “innumerables dificultades”, para llevar el Evangelio a la población de la parte oriental de la isla de Timor, colonizada en el siglo XVI por los portugueses, tanto que el país era conocido como Timor portugués. “Es justo y oportuno que este suceso sea recordado adecuadamente”, escribe el Pontífice.