B. Michele Tansi 
«In order to avoid all serious errors in life, we must avoid acting precipitously.» This rule was regularly followed and recommended by Blessed Father Tansi, who added, «We can keep this principle by placing ourselves in the presence of God, and organizing and performing our task with Him. If we do so, neither success nor failure will disturb us.»
Iwene Tansi was born in 1903 in a small village in Nigeria. His parents were pagans, but deeply religious. He was still quite young when his father died. When Iwene was born, his father had made him an amulet, a good-luck charm that the child was very fond of. But one day, as he was coming home from Saint Joseph's Christian School in Aguleri, a trembling nine-year-old Iwene destroyed his amulet. Father Rubino, who was preparing the child for baptism, had told him to destroy this object of superstition before receiving the sacrament. Soon after, Iwene was baptized with the name Michael. During his adolescence, Michael became aware that he saw out of only one eye, a disability that he would have all his life. Nevertheless, he worked hard and did well in his studies. In his final year, when he was only sixteen, he was asked if he wanted to stay on at the school as a teacher.
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