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

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1855

pg 262       just buried its honor under a crushing loan of ignominy in 
             Louisiana.
                  The members of the chapters of the Lake were pained beyond 
             measure by the conduct of the Mother House.  The letters of Ste. 
             Croix said that the Brothers and the Sisters of the asylum had 
             been reprimanded, and those that came from the asylum declared 
             plainly that they had been approved and supported.
                  It is useless to write here the suspicions that were 
             entertained as to the causes why Ste. Croix had offered New 
             Orleans and New York to the Lake.  Oh! there are in the lives of 
             religious communities as well as in those of individuals, moments 
             of trial which are akin to discouragement, not to say despair.
                  In those days the ten Sisters that arrived from France, and 
             from whom was expected the example of all the virtues, because, in 
             the words of the superioress of Sainte Croix, they were amongst 
             the best in the Mother House:  those very Sisters had hardly 
             passed fifteen days at the Lake before they had grieved, almost 
             disgusted all the French Sisters that came in contact with them.