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

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1846

pg 99                          3.  Acquisition of Indianapolis

                  Ever since 1842, Mgr. Dela Hailandiere had the idea that the 
             novitiate of the Brothers should be established at Indianapolis.  
             At that time it was evidently impossible to carry out his plans.  
             On occasion of his trip to Europe in 1844 he entered in to an 
             agreement with the Rev. F. Moreau by which the house and the 
             Ordinary of Vincennes bound themselves reciprocally.  One of the 
             clauses of this contract was that if the Society, adopting the 
             view of His Lordship, would transfer the novitiate from Notre Dame 
             du Lac to Indianapolis, the Bishop would give $500, and three 
             hundred and seventy-five acres of ground near Bertrand, Michigan.
                  During the absence of F. Sorin it seems that Mgr. Dela 
             Hailandiere learned of the project of founding a house at St. 
             Mary's.  As a matter of course he loudly condemned it from the 
             first, and soon afterwards he made no mystery [of his 
             determination] that if any members were sent from the Lake to 
             Kentucky, he would pack them all off there.  As soon as Sorin had