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

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1854

pg 193            Since about sixteen months, during which he was once more 
             attending to his missions in the North, the dear Father had 
             regained by degrees his strength and his former energy.
                  Great was his surprise on learning that he was once more 
             named for New Orleans, but his resignation was equal.  He would 
             have started at once for the post to which he was recalled, had he 
             not at the same time received orders to wait for two Brothers whom 
             the Mother House was sending him for the Asylum.  Some weeks 
             between the arrival of this letter and that of the travellers 
             referred to were useful in making the necessary preparations and 
             in putting on a good footing his many and important functions at 
             N.D. du Lac:  for he was Vice-President and Director of all the 
             missions depending on the Lake.
                  We have just said, "some weeks;" whereas Providence decreed 
             that is should be some months.  Our two Brothers were sixty-five 
             days on the ocean.  When they landed in New York without money and 
             without resources of any kind, their first act was to telegraph 
             and to write to the Lake for the means necessary to continue their 
             journey.  The two Sisters that accompanied them only added to