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

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1857

pg 308            He had a multitude of things to regulate in the three 
             communities, and according to his itinerary he could remain for 
             only three weeks in the Province.  To the day he added two-thirds 
             of the night, and when the time came for him to take his departure 
             for France, it was found that he had done the work of several 
             months.  He had organized everything according to the new 
             Constitutions, formed the Chapters and the Councils of Notre Dame 
             and St. Mary's, presided the elections in both places, heard all 
             the directions, admitted to the novitiate and to profession all 
             that were prepared, and finally arranged the separation in 
             temporals of the Sisters from the other two societies.
                  His last week was spent chiefly in visiting the houses of 
             Chicago and Philadelphia.  On Saturday, September 19th, he 
             embarked on the Arago at New York and had a prosperous voyage to 
             France, accompanied by Bro. Vincent, the patriarch of the 
             community of Josephites.
                  hardly had His Reverence left the coasts of America when 
             there came that financial crash which in a few months changed the