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

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1854

pg 194       their embarrassment. 
                  Their telegram and letter were both so badly directed that 
             they were not answered, never having reached their destination at 
             the Lake.  Bro. Dominic believed that he was making good use of 
             some pennies that remained to him out of a loan of 200fr. that he 
             had obtained of a very charitable Redemptorist Father by spending 
             them in making his way to the Lake.  Of his three travelling 
             companions whom he had left behind, not one could speak a word of 
             English.  It was necessary to send money by express to pay the 
             expenses of those brave soldiers of the Cross and save them from 
             being sold at auction to pay their personal debts.
                  Finally, God permitted that they arrived; but during all 
             those mysterious mischances, events of grave importance were 
             succeeding one another rapidly at Notre Dame du Lac.
                  During the Annual Retreat of the Sisters in their new house, 
             three hundred paces from the college, one of their postulants was 
             suddenly taken with pains in the chest so violent that in some 
             hours she succumbed, having hardly been able to make her 
             confession and to receive extreme unction.