Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1841-1842

pg 9              On deck, there was a little room 6 x 8 ft. for the cabin 
             passengers.  The Ladies of the Sacred Heart and the Brothers had 
             the exclusive use of this room in turns for their religious 
             exercises.  There, instructions were given and even the chapters 
             were held; there, confessions were heard; there, whenever the sea 
             permitted it, the holy sacrifice of the mass was offered up and 
             each of the pious pilgrims came to receive the Bread of Angels 
             and to fortify himself with the precious viaticum against the 
             daily and nightly dangers of the treacherous elements; and this 
             was done eleven times during the sea voyage.
                  To relate all the sweet emotions of this happy family on 
             those solemn occasions would not be easy; it will be much 
             pleasanter for them to call to mind, throughout their whole 
             lives, the extraordinary consolations bestowed upon them in this 
             dear and charming little floating sanctuary.  It is there that it 
             pleased Our Lord to begin the fulfillment of his promises made 
             to all those that shall have left father, mother, etc. for his 
             sake.  There in truth each one must have felt that he already 
             received the hundred fold of what he had left.  
                  Piety everywhere commands respect and esteem.  Aboard, the