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

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1855

pg 276       1849, and in 1853 F. Sorin built a brick school house which has 
             answered also for a church up to the present.  Adjoining the 
             Sisters' house in another lot given for a church.  Work was even 
             begun on it last year; but the unexpected death of Mr. Coquillard 
             caused it to be suspended.  The walls are standing there five feet 
             above the ground.
                  Up to the present this school is a work of pure charity, most 
             of the Catholics of Lowell being Canadians, who are poor 
             everywhere in the United States.  A priest goes to say mass there 
             at 9 o'clock every Sunday.