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

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1854

pg 196       house so severely tried for some two weeks.  Soon, however, 
             resignation to the will of heaven came and restored calm, although 
             traces of sadness remained which only time could by degrees 
             efface.
                  The Retreat of the Priests followed closely on that of the 
             Brothers.  Like the two previous Retreats, it was made in 
             recollection and with all the signs of a retreat in which the 
             grace of God has free play.
                  Thus regenerated in all its parts, the work presented to the 
             eyes of faith a well-founded hope that heaven would bless it for 
             its efforts to please God, and for the afflictions that had 
             weighed upon it.  Everyone felt rejoiced, and sought in the peace 
             and innocence that follow a general retreat, peace and innocence 
             that follow a general retreat, pledges of new blessings.  Alas! 
             how different are the thoughts of man's heart from the thoughts of 
             God!
                  Hardly had the last retreat ended when maladies broke out, 
             multiplied, and became day by day more serious and alarming, and 
             they were almost general in the three Societies.  Sr. M. of St. 
             Aloysius Gonzaga dies at Bertrand on Assumption day; Sr. M. of St. 
             Anastasia follows her soon from the same room.  Two places were 
             thus made vacant in the ranks of the professed Sisters; but 
             evidently the two had gone to join the elect.