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

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1853

pg 176       was to drive patience, even the most tried, to the last extremity.  
             Good sense and ordinary prudence would have yielded in presence of 
             fears so natural, and would have got rid of them by acting on them 
             [et les eut dissipies en les respectant].  Sainte Croix wanted to 
             demolish everything without regard for anybody.
                  For men less attached to their first engagements and their 
             religious obligations, assuredly much less would have sufficed to 
             make them regret that they had placed themselves under such a 
             heavy yoke.  As long as they had any solid hopes of improvement, 
             they had suffered, if not without interior repining, at least 
             without making it publicly manifest.
                  At the date of these events they began to see that their 
             patience in suffering everything did not in the least disarm 
             Sainte Croix, and that soon the ruin of their mission would be the 
             inevitable result of the measures, unless they were checked.
                  A regular memorial was prepared by the secretary of the minor 
             Chapter of N.D. du Lac and signed by all the members, Father 
             Superior alone excepted, to be sent to the Pope with a view of 
             obtaining a separation from Sainte Croix.  A little later, the 
             fear of inflicting too much harm on the Association caused a