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

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1844

pg 71        proportion to their growth and to the development of their 
             reason.  In general they afford as much consolation as they give 
             trouble, and according to the last statement of their expenses 
             and their work it can hardly be said that they are a burden to 
             the house.  God be blessed who thus, even in the performance of a 
             charity that was almost forced upon the institution, provided a 
             genuine resource for the future.

                                4.  The Sisters of Holy Cross
                                     at Bertrand, Mich.

They think        As soon as he arrived at St. Peter's in 1841, F. Sorin had 
of forming   manifested his desire to the Rev. F. Rector to have Sisters of 
a novitiate. Holy Cross for the service of the mission.  It was only two 
             years later, however, that is was possible for the Mother House 
             to send him any.  They came, four in number, under the guidance 
             of F. Cointet, who led the second colony.  We have already 
             mentioned where they were place and in what they were employed in 
             the beginning at Notre Dame du Lac.  The good effects of their 
             coming created in some sort new needs.  Four Sisters were not 
             enough to perform all the work that it was desirable to entrust 
             to them.