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

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1857

pg 307       futile and still more ridiculous than any they had heretofore made 
             in the United States.
                  The approbation of the Congregation was not kept secret; it 
             appeared in two entire columns of the Boston Pilot, with the 
             entire discourse of His Eminence the Cardinal of Bordeaux, 
             delivered at Sainte Croix on occasion of the consecration of the 
             conventual church, and a portion of that of the Rev. F. Souillard 
             on the Congregation of Holy Cross.  
                  Another event which was only a consequence of the former made 
             this year the most extraordinary witnessed thus far by the 
             children of Holy Cross in the United States.  We refer to the 
             visit of the V. R. F. Moreau, founder of the society, who had for 
             many years been deferring from month to month the keeping of a 
             promise which he had made soon to visit his establishments in 
             America.  The promulgation of the decree of approbation was the 
             determining occasion for him; and on the 27th of the month of 
             August His Reverence arrived at Notre Dame, where he was received 
             with all the demonstrations of the most sincere and most 
             enthusiastic joy.