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

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1853

pg 172       See; finally, the old love that bound this Father to Sainte Croix 
             and his first associates: all this, joined to the hopes which it 
             was tried to impress on him that peace was finally established on 
             a solid basis, determined him, after the lapse of some weeks, to 
             write to the Chapters of N.D. du Lac and of Bertrand that all 
             things were settled and peace was established.  Although he could 
             not altogether believe it himself, on his part he acted on every 
             occasion as if fully persuaded that such was the case.
                  During the two months that he afterwards spent in Rome, he 
             did not open his lips in regard to the difficulties that had 
             brought him once more from the Lake to Le Mans.  He even took 
             pleasure in laboring nearly all the time, by means of visits, 
             memorials, repeated urgent appeals, to push forward the 
             approbation so earnestly desired at Sainte Croix.  And when he 
             learned that a Brief of approbation which had been spoken of as a 
             certainty would have to be waited for much longer than was 
             expected at Sainte Croix, he was the first to be grieved at this 
             as at a privation that affected him personally in the deepest 
             manner.
                  In these same sentiments he returned to his adopted country