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

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1847

pg 115            When F. Blox, superior of St. Xavier's college in Cincinnati,
             was questioned by F. Sorin in presence of F. Saunier and those 
             Brothers, how he could thus receive three subjects without 
             informing their superiors, even though they had made perpetual 
             vows and had left their posts vacant, he answered that he knew 
             nothing of these circumstances, and that things being so, none of 
             them could be admitted amongst the Jesuits.  F. Sorin then 
*Were they   declared in their presence that he would take none of them back, 
ever remark- and he left them as he had found them, thinking with Bishop 
able for     Purcell that the Jesuits were not always particularly delicate  
this deli-   towards other religious houses,* and promising himself that he 
cacy?        would not soon forget the lesson he had just received.