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

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1846

pg 98             F. Sorin had obtained permission to admit to the perpetual 
profession   vows at this retreat MM. Cointet, Marivault, and Gouesse.  These 
of Fr.       professions were deferred for the solemnity of Christmas.
Cointet, etc      The first months appeared all the happier because everyone 
             felt that he was actually living the life of Sainte Croix.  Never 
             had the consolations of faith been more necessary for the house.  
             Without going over what has been said above as to the troubles 
             caused the administration this autumn by Mr. Badin, maladies and 
             death came by turns and together to try to the utmost the patience 
             of this poor family.  Bros. John the Baptist and Anthony, and Mr. 
             Garnier, an excellent postulant for the Brothers, who had come 
             from France with the last colony, were successively carried away 
             in the space of two months.
                  The grant of 15,000fr. this year by the Propagation of the 
             Faith, which they learned towards the end of autumn, was a great 
             consolation for all amidst their vexations and sufferings.