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

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1849

pg 133                         4.  Mission and Church at Niles

                  The missions had never been better nor even so well attended 
             as this year.  F. Cointet, Gouesse, and Baroux devoted all their 
             time to them, and did much good.  These missions were more 
             fruitful in good before God than in money in the eyes of the 
             administration.  Most of those little congregations recently 
             established being poor, can give but little towards the support of 
             the priest.  However, F. Cointet thinks that by the opening of 
             spring he can begin a church at Niles with subscriptions of the 
             Catholics of the place and of some laborers on the railroad who 
             had not yet departed.
1849              The church was to be finished about August 15th.  Probably a 
             new railroad will be started from South Bend and will supply the 
             means of building some new churches in the north of Indiana.
                  On July 9th, 1849, the annual retreat of the priests was 
             begun (six priests, eight scholastics, and four seminarians from 
             Milwaukee).  It ended on the 15th, and the novitiate of the