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

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1849

pg 136       probably the first of this name enriched by the privileges 
             attached to consecration.  It is small but very pretty, being 
             altogether, sacristy included, only ninety-two feet long by 
             thirty-eight wide and twenty high.  It has three alters on which 
             the holy mass can be celebrated at one and the same time.
                  On the following Tuesday Monseigneur gave confirmation to 
             seven persons at Goshen and on Wednesday to twenty-one at 
             Mishawaka.  On Thursday he ordained subdeacons two of our novices, 
             MM. Shilling (a German) and Shortis (Irish).  On Friday at 
             Bertrand he received the profession of two Sisters, Mary of Bon 
             Secours and Mary of St. Dorthea.  On Saturday morning he departed 
             well pleased for Michigan City with two of our Fathers, 
             administered confirmation there next day, and on Monday at 
             Laporte, another of our congregations.
                  In this same visit, the first made to the house of our 
             Bishop, he added four other counties to our mission, and the 
             Bishop of Chicago also wished to make us a present of a large 
             congregation of Germans.  Besides, His Lordship wished to make of 
             the establishment of orphans at Notre Dame du Lac his diocesan 
             establishment, as he had begun in regard to his seminary by 
             sending his only seminarian.