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

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1855

pg 279            12. Michigan City, Indiana.  This town is suited about thirty 
             miles to the north-west of Notre Dame, on the shores of the lake 
             of the same name and was provided with a Catholic church in 1841 
             by the Rev. Mr. de St. Palais, now our worthy bishop.  He was then 
             pastor of Chicago, whence he came three or four times a year to 
             visit the different stations which at present form the mission of 
             Notre Dame du Lac.  It has about two thousand inhabitants of whom 
             some two hundred are Catholics.
                  From time to time one of the Fathers from Notre Dame took up 
             his residence there, especially during the months of July, August, 
             September, and October, when there is most sickness.  In 1852 the 
             house sent a Brother who taught there for a year.  Towards the end 
             of 1854 some Sisters were asked for and sent.  In a few months 
             they formed a class of from seventy-five to ninety children, most 
             of them poor, and nearly all Catholics.