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

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1855

pg 232       last, and had sent a Brother as visitor, with the Mother Superior 
             and two Sisters to make the regular visit of that foundation.  
             Although they were the bearers of letters from the Rev. F. Rector, 
             and F. Sorin had taken all imaginable precautions to avoid 
             wounding any susceptibilities, the Sisters and Brothers of the 
             Asylum would listen to nothing that came from the Lake, and, 
             shielding their conduct under the fair name of attachment to Ste. 
             Croix, they trampled under foot even the arrangements of Ste. 
             Croix, insulted the envoys from the Lake in the most outrageous 
             manner, so far even as to compel the Mother Superior to return to 
             the Lake amidst the ice and snow, whilst they knew that she had 
             gone to New Orleans by order of the doctors to pass the winter 
             there, as well as to fulfil an obedience most painful in its 
             nature.  She accordingly returned, to the great surprise and 
             mortification of the whole chapter, which was informed of the 
             strange proceedings of the Sisters of New Orleans.
                  This was the last act of this year 1855, so fruitful in grave 
             events for the community of Holy Cross in the United States.  This 
             year, which posterity will doubtless call the year of the