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

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1844

pg 73        as near as prudence would allow so as to be able to see to them 
             himself without difficulty, and to obtain from them some services 
             for the community and the college.
                  Mgr. Dela Hailandiere no sooner learned of this than, 
             thinking a sharp trick had been played on him, he immediately 
             wrote to the bishop of Detroit in such a severe and imperious 
             manner that the latter was frightened and lost no time in 
             withdrawing the permission and authorization he had given to 
             establish the Sisters at Bertrand.
                  On receipt of this disagreeable news F. Sorin goes at once to 
             Detroit to lay the matter more fully before the Bishop.  During 
             this time the Bishop of Cincinnati comes there on a visit, and the 
             matter is submitted to him.  The great argument of the Bishop of 
             Vincennes was that the proximity of the two establishments was 
             dangerous.  Bishop Purcell was of a different opinion, and F. 
             Sorin returned, confirmed in what he had done, after all, only 
             according to the required conditions.  The Sisters remained at 
             Bertrand, but the Bishop of Vincennes could not forget.
                  It was in the middle of the summer of 1844, thirteen months 
             after their arrival from France, that they went to their new