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. February 16. Lateran. Pope Innocent IV writes to the sultan of Turchia, describing the advantages of Christianity and the pope's special role, before relating that the pope is particularly concerned for the addressee's soul, so he is sending to him friars of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), experienced in God's law, the bearers of this letter, through whom the divine spirit will teach pious ears every truth about God, His justice. and the future life. The pope asks him for the sake of his soul to receive the friars kindly, treat them with charity, and allow them to live in his dominion, so that by God the living Father, through the words of eternal life, they can work for his soul and those of the people his and other nations to whom they wish to proceed under his protection, such that for his piety he may achieve the glory of immortality and the grace of happiness.