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

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1855

pg 257       an almost irreparable injury by decrying the superioress and the 
             Society even in the presence of those that should have esteemed it 
             the most.
                  Whilst those things were going on F. Sorin received a letter 
             from His Reverence promising him that this foundation, if it 
             succeeded, would depend on Notre Dame.  At the same time F. Sorin 
             went to Canada on business, and as the same affair also took him 
             to New York immediately afterwards, he thought it proper, being on 
             the spot, to take some information about a foundation that was to 
             depend on the Lake.
                  After having seen the house and consulted with F. Madeore and 
             the Archbishop, it seemed to him evident that neither the 
             Archbishop nor F. Madeore, nor the Sisters, knew on whom the 
             establishment depended, and that everybody was tired of this 
             uncertainty, which threatened everything with speedy and 
             inevitable ruin.  In this emergency F. Sorin thought that he was 
             authorized to take the house under his direction and assume the 
             responsibility.  He spent three days there, and before departing 
             promised to furnish the persons necessary for the work.