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

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1854

pg 191       had saved from more than one danger, and who had hardly dared to 
             believe in the hope of ever again seeing the land which they had 
             already watered with their sweat, and those walls that enclosed 
             their dearest affections.
                  To publish and put in force all the new decisions of the 
             Mother House was the first care of F. Sorin on his return.  The 
             Minor Chapter was dissolved for the time being and F. Gastineau, 
             named Local Superior at the Asylum in New Orleans was to act for 
             some months as assistant and counselor to the superior of the 
             Lake, until the Rev. F. Reze and Mother M. of the Seven Dolors 
             could come from Canada and make the visit in Notre Dame du Lac and 
             New Orleans.
                  Meanwhile the wants of the Asylum became too pressing to wait 
             for spring, and orders were given him at the beginning of the 
             following month to proceed at once to his post with the Sister 
             Superior whom he had brought from Sainte Croix to take the 
             management of that house, in which the Association already counted 
             fourteen Sisters in two establishments.
                  But he hardly reached his destination when he was seized with