12 As a pledge of heavenly grace and a token of Our paternal affection receivethe Apostolic Benediction which We lovingly impart in the Lord to you all,Venerable Brothers, to your clergy, and to the flocks entrusted to your care. Given at St. Peter's, Rome, on the 18th day of December, 1897, in the twentieth year of Our pontificate.
Source: Affari Vos (Vatican.va)