They say there's barely a French town without a street bearing the name of Victor Hugo. I'm reading 'Les Miserables' just now and, a mere 200 pages into Hugo's doorstopper, increasingly understanding why. One cannot fail to be utterly inspired by the life of the Bishop of Digne, whose tale opens the novel. A martyr to self and a servant to all, we would all do well to remember his example and he will be particularly etched in our minds as we begin our work, in a few days' time, among the people of Trinidad, Bolivia.
