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

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1844

pg 72             Moreover, persons that might be an acquisition sometimes 
             present themselves.  To come to the point at once, a novitiate of 
             their order was considered as a desirable establishment.  But 
             whether the Bishop would consent to this was very doubtful, or 
             rather more than doubtful.  He feared it himself, as he answered 
             when the subject was first broached to him.
Bishop would      Despairing of obtaining anything from Vincennes, F. Sorin, 
not allow    who had just received a confidential letter from the Rev. Father 
Sisters of   in regard to the difficulties opposed to him by Mgr. Bouvier 
Holy Cross   relatively to the Sisters of Holy Cross, whom he would not so much 
into the     as hear mentioned, addressed himself to the Bishop of Detroit, who 
diocese of   seemed to be delighted to have them established in his diocese and 
Vincennes    who gave his approbation and encouragement.
                  Not content with this first approbation of the Bishop of 
             Detroit, F. Sorin who had some presentiment of what afterwards 
             happened, asked, before making the change, to have a renewal of 
             this favor.  Hereupon he considered himself justified, and sent 
             two Sisters and three postulants to Bertrand, two leagues from the 
             Lake, in the diocese of Detroit.  His object was to establish them