Thanks to a Decree of the State Ministry in 1902, in which he was obliged to present an annual Report of the Spanish possessions in Africa, we have abundant information from the hand of Fr. Armengol Coll. In 1903 the publication of the bimonthly Claretian magazine also began La Guinea Española [Spanish Guinea], with the objective of commenting on the religious, material and moral interests of the Gulf of Guinea.

The missions in Guinea can be grouped into three groups: the Fernand group, all located on the island of Fernando Poo, which were separated and isolated from the others, with a lot of information about their lives and apostolic works. The group of those on the borders of the continent, all of them in the vicinity of Muni River: Corisco, Cabo San Juan, Elobeys and Rio Benito. And finally, Annobon, which because of its absolute isolation, because of the special condition of his inhabitants, offered a very particular atmosphere for the apostolate, very different and segregated in its development and in its history from the other missions.

Villatobas (Toledo, Spain). He was one of the most influential personalities of the Spanish ecclesiastical life of the 19th century. Founder, director, owner, and editor of the newspaper La Cruz [The Cross], a religious magazine that was created in Seville in 1852. He arrived in Madrid in 1828 to study at the Imperial College. He married in 1840 and had six children. He moved to Toledo and later to Seville as a professor of the Arabic language. He was editor of the newspaper El Conciliador [The Mediator] until he founded his great work La Cruz, which made him an important figure in the history of the Spanish Church. On November 1, 1858, Claret founded the Academy of St. Michael in Madrid. Among the partners of the first Hierarchy was Leon Carbonero y Sol. He moved to Madrid during the revolution of 1868. He published a large number of books and held numerous positions. Claret was his great friend and counselor. La Cruz published numerous articles about the saint, including those about his beatification process. He corresponded with Claret. He died on March 4th.