At the end of the Pope's audience on Wednesday, January 13, 2010, the Superior General, Javier Álvarez-Ossorio, and the Postulator General, Alfred Bell had the opportunity to greet the Holy Father personally and give him a letter and gift as an expression of gratitude for the canonization of Saint Damien De Veuster and as a sign of the Congregation's communion with the Successor of Peter.

01/13/2010