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

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1855

pg 260            The documents with which M. M. of the Five Wounds was 
             provided from the Reverend Father and the Secretary General, being 
             carefully examined; the new obedience of Superioress recently sent 
             her by Ste. Croix, with her two assistants, a stewardess, and a 
             mistress of novices; and the messages with which they were 
             charged, for instance, not to give the habit to anyone without the 
             approbation of His Reverence, even if the postulants had already 
             been admitted by the Lake; the positive declarations of the 
             foundress that the Reverend Father would no more cede New York to  
             the Lake than he would New Orleans--all these circumstances 
             carefully weighed, F. Sorin saw clearly that he had gone too far 
             in attempting to act as circumstances demanded in New York.
             It would be evidently exposing the new foundation to the same 
             miseries that disgraced the Congregation in the South; and if 
             Sainte Croix had at one time shown different intentions, it was no 
             longer doubtful that it wished to retain this new house.
                  F. Madeore and the Archbishop as well as the Sisters had 
             expected a firm and vigorous cooperation from F. Sorin, as has