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

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1853

pg 174       which objected to the promotion to this office of a man who had 
             publicly declared that he would be superior in spite of his 
             Provincial, who by his conduct since his ordination had only too 
             well shown the justice of his expulsion from the seminary of Le 
             Mans, afterwards repeated by the Chapter of the Lake and by the 
             Rector himself.
                  It would be hard to believe that Sainte Croix had not seen 
             the danger of applying to such a man a principle just in itself, 
             but which in the present case was unjust both in regard to the 
             subject and to the application: for in his quality of Provincial 
             F. Sorin ought certainly to have the power of providing for the 
             actual wants of the Work in the United States; and even after the 
             nomination of the said Father by the Rector himself, it was 
             possible that reasons unforeseen by the Rector might arise 
             sufficient to justify a suspension of the orders of Sainte Croix.  
             Now the Provincial, being the representative of the Rector in his 
             Province, is the judge of these reasons.
                  F. Sorin might be deceived in this examination but he had 
             right on his side in judging whether it was or was not expedient 
             to put a Father in charge immediately who in his eyes was unworthy