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

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1854

pg 198       four others were novices;  BB. Clement, Joseph, Cesaire, and 
             Daniel.  They all offered up their lives in a most edifying 
             manner; and if the number of deaths was calculated to spread 
             terror amongst the survivors, their last moments, on the other 
             hand, were so pious and consoling that only one impression seemed 
             to remain in the depth of the souls of those that were the 
             witnesses.  May my last moments be like to those of the just; may 
             my soul thus leave her prison.
                  But what rendered painful to the last degree those ravages of 
             death amongst the Brothers and the Sisters was to see that his 
             blows fell indiscriminately on all sides, and that the society of 
             the Salvatorists, whose numbers, especially considering the wants 
             of the country, were so few, was not spread any more than the 
             other two societies.
Had come          Father Curley, a young Irish missioner ordained only one 
from the     year, was the first of the priests of Holy Cross called to bear 
seminary in  the standard of the Society to heaven.  He was taken with 
Louisville.  dysentery during the retreat and continued to languish and grow 
             weaker and weaker to the end, which came on Sept. 4th.  His death 
             made a great but happy sensation.  It left nothing to be desired, 
             nothing to be feared.