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

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1855

pg 270       with such rich graces that they may do wonders, without ever again 
             knocking at our doors and forgetting themselves. Amen.
                  8. Mishawaka.  Four miles south-east of Notre Dame is the 
             pretty little town with this Indian name, containing about two 
             thousand inhabitants, some fifty of whom are Catholics.  
             Mishawaka, which is already thirty years old, has always been 
             noticeable for its iron works, which are its support and the basis 
             of commerce of the neighborhood.  It is one of the towns of the 
             North that has best preserved the spirit of bigotry and hatred of 
             everything Catholic.
                  In 1848 the Fathers of the Lake took every means to persuade 
             the Catholics of Mishawaka to purchase a little frame building 
             which would answer for a church until they could do better.  The 
             house was bought for $600, and until 1856 it answered the purpose 
             for the Irish and the Germans, who had meanwhile become much more 
             numerous than they were before.