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L'emotion de mon coeur vous le dit : Humble serviteur de votre empire, je vous salue comme la Reine de la terre et du Ciel; enfant privilegie de votre amour, le vous benis comme la meilleure des meres; pauvre et denue de toutes richesses spirituelles, je vous prie comme la dispensatrice de la grace. Vous savez mieux que moi ce dont j'ai besoin et quel bienfait particulier je viens aujourd'hui reclamer de votre misericorde; montrez-vous ma mere en me l'obtenant de votre cher Fils./ Vous etes me joie, mon esperance et me vie! Soutenez-moi donc dans mes combats, fortifiez-moi contre la tentation, enflammex en moi les saints desirs, preservez-moi ou retirez-moi de l'esclavage du peche, benissez mes travaux et soyez me consolation des mes peines. Laissez toujours fixe sur moi le regard de votre misericorde : mais surtout a l'heure de la mort assistez-moi, priez pour moi et sauvez-moi pour l'eternite : que je puisse vous y contempler, revetue de gloire, a cote de votre divin Fils. Ainsi soit-il./ O Marie concue sans peche, priez pour nous./ Notre-Dame d'Afrique, priez pour nous et pour les musulmans./ Consolatrice des Affliges, priez pour nous./ (Indulgence 40 jours)/ + L. A. Augustin Pavy,/ Eveque D'Alger./ Modele depose./ Reproduction intedite.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Recto: EBJ / Paris / Our Lady of Africa\r\nVerso: Prayer / With what joy, O my Sovereign, I prostrate myself at the foot of your altar. The emotion of my heart speaks for me: humble servant of your realm, I hail you as Queen of Earth and Heaven; privileged child of your love, I bless you as the best of mothers; poor and destitute of all spiritual riches, I pray to you as the dispenser of grace. You know better than I what I need and what particular favor I come today to seek from your mercy; show yourself to be my mother by obtaining it for me from your dear Son. / You are my joy, my hope, and my life! Sustain me, then, in my struggles; strengthen me against temptation; kindle holy desires within me; preserve me from—or deliver me out of—the slavery of sin; bless my labors and be the solace of my sorrows. Keep the gaze of your mercy ever fixed upon me; but above all, at the hour of my death, assist me, pray for me, and save me for eternity, that I may behold you there, clothed in glory, beside your divine Son. Amen. / O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us. / Our Lady of Africa, pray for us and for the Muslims. / Comforter of the Afflicted, pray for us. / (Indulgence: 40 days) / + L. A. 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