This station is required by law to broadcast the following announcement twice daily for the duration of the emergency: 'The provisions of Public Law 10-WR-3E in no way empower private citizens to administer euthanasia to victims of radiation poisoning. I said 'burden,' not 'honor.' Crucis autem onus si audisti ut honorem, nihilo errasti auribus.' 'If you ever come back, you might meet the Archangel at the east end of Earth, guarding her passes with a sword of flame. Be for Man the memory of Earth and Origin. Teach them, and receive into the Order those among them who are called. Some may be lost for a time from the Faith. Some of you, or those to come after you, will be mendicants and wanderers, teaching the chronicles of Earth and the canticles of the Crucified to the peoples and the cultures that may grow out of the colony groups. And with you, the records and remembrances of four thousand years and more.

Wherever Man goes, yon and your successors will go. If civilization, or a vestige of it, can maintain itself on Centaurus, you will send missions to the other colony worlds, and perhaps eventually to the colonies of their colonies. But the ship will remain in your hands, and the Memorabilia. After the patriarchal see is established at the Centaurus Colony, you will establish there a mother house the Visitationist Friars of the Order of Saint Leibowitz of Tycho.

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