"I cast my anchor"

"In the midst of this storm I cast my anchor towards the throne of God, the anchor that is the lively hope in my heart."

     St. Bʼao Tịnh Paul Lê (1793-1857), letter to the students (alumni) of the seminary in Ke-Vinh, Vietnam, dated 1843, as trans. in the Liturgy of the hours (i.e. Universalis) for 24 November, from Missions étrangères de Paris, Le clergé Tonkinois et ses prêtres martyrs (Paris: Missions-étrangères, 1925), 80-83 (try again later for a digitization).