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

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1841-1842

pg 27        establishment of the Brothers, who, having no resources of their 
             own, and depending, even for the necessaries of life, on their 
             Mother House, and on the diocese, hardly dared to ask help from 
             anyone before ascertaining definitely to whom they should look.  
             On their side; neither the diocese nor the [Mother] House was in 
             a hurry to act until this question was settled.  The diocese, 
             however, made this determination much more clearly manifest.  
             Whilst F. Moreau continued to do all that he could for them, Mgr. 
             Dela Hailandiere maintained a kind of reserve--as much as to say 
             that he would have been willing and able to do more if the
             Brothers' establishment had been placed entirely in his care.
                  Collection by Mr. Delaune.  The state of destitution of the 
             little colony thus deserted on both sides and left to its own 
             fate would soon have been a very sad one had not Providence shown 
             the same readiness as in a thousand other circumstances to step 
             in and rescue our good Brothers from their embarrassing situation.
             The Rev. J. Delaune had not yet started for the new post assigned 
             him by the Bishop at Shanetown, but he was preparing to do so in 
             a few days.  Conversing one evening with F. Sorin about his pious