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

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1854

pg 190                             Chapter XIII. Year 1854

                              Return of F. Sorin to N.D. du Lac

                  F. Sorin had started for Sainte Croix in the month of 
             November with the idea--even the conviction--that he would be sent 
             to Bengal.  Obedience, contrary to his anticipations, sent him 
             back some months later to his former post, where trials awaited 
             him such as he had never experienced heretofore.
                  The passage was most distressing and most dangerous; it was 
             made in the month of January, and lasted twenty-five days.  F. 
             Sorin had with him four Sisters, one of whom was charged by the 
             Mother House to make the regular visit, and another, Sr. M. of St. 
             Angela, a young American Sister who had just made her profession 
             at Sainte Croix and who was returning to the United States with 
             the obedience of directress of St. Mary's Academy at Bertrand.
                  The return to N.D. du Lac on February 2nd was a holiday for 
             everybody, but especially for the five travellers whom Providence