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

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1854

pg 197            Then followed two novice Sisters and one postulant.  They 
             were carried away one after the other by the terrible plague, 
             which was nothing less than an epidemic resulting from the 
             combination of the two most terrible maladies of the country:  
             dysentery and typhus--as if two of the most dread enemies of human 
             life had challenged each other to the death in order to crush a 
             young family hardly out of its swathing clothes.
                  The Society of the Sisters was not alone the object of 
             heaven's wrath--if it can be said that a Father is angry when he 
             calls home to himself his children after having left them for a 
             time in exile,  to dry their tears and to set on their brow the 
             royal and immortal crown promised to their fidelity.
                  Whatever may have been the designs of heaven, which it is not 
             given us to penetrate, but which we should adore in silence and 
             perfect submission, victims were at the same time demanded from 
             amongst the Brothers.  Five of them and three postulants were 
             carried off one by one in spite of all the efforts of the house to 
             save them.  Of the five, only one was professed, Bro. Dominic; the