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

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1855

pg 256       Guesdon sent her orders to leave New York and return, declaring 
             expressly that he would have nothing to do with this foundation.
                  Some months afterwards F. Guesdon died, and the Mother 
             thought herself at liberty to reflect and to act for herself.  She 
             wrote to the Rev. F. Reze in Canada and to F. Sorin at Notre Dame 
             to get some Sisters to help her in starting this work, which she 
             painted in the most glowing colors.  She succeeded in obtaining 
             two Sisters from each place, and in some weeks she found herself 
             at the head of twenty-five postulants in a fine house on 29st., 
             New York, rented for $1000 a year.
                  Unfortunately those that gather sometimes scatter.  The 
             Sisters that joined her from Canada could not agree with her.  
             Their troubles were not long kept secret.  Soon F. Madeore and the 
             Archbishop were made acquainted with the miseries amidst which the 
             work was beginning.  After some weeks of quarrelling and after 
             some disagreeable and offensive letters had been exchanged between 
             F. Madeore and the superior of Canada, M. of the Redemption was 
             obliged to return to St. Laurent, but not before she had inflicted