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

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1854

pg 200       the Catholics throughout the country.  Ah! his was one of the 
             purest names that the history of the Church in America can offer 
             to the piety of the faithful.  In losing him, the Association 
             suffered, according to human judgment, one of those losses that 
             cannot be repaired--a gain for him, without doubt.  For in the 
             short time that he lived, he had accomplished much.
                  He was one of those men of solid merit, who made not the 
             least display; a man of God who saw only God in all things.  All 
             thought that they appreciated him well during his life, and all 
             now see, after he has disappeared, that the void left by him when 
             he descended into the tomb is every day becoming greater.  No one 
             knew him better nor loved him more sincerely that the poor 
             superior of the Lake.  One need not be astonished to learn here 
             that on the night when he was obliged to announce to his other 
             self that he was going to die, to administer to him the last 
             sacraments, and finally to receive his last breath, his soul was 
             crushed, his mind wandering and not far from a state of 
             disorganization as sad as death itself.
                  Eighteen members of the desolate family of N.D. du Lac had