 He even served as "de facto" editor-in-chief of Tsankov's Istanbul-based newspaper "Balgaria" for several years.Despite their ecclesiastical differences, Bulgarian patriarch Cyril remembered Faveyrial as a "kind priest".After a life of intense work of teaching and writings, and after having opened many new schools during his last 13 years of life, Jean-Claude Faveyrial died in Manastir on 26 November 1893.