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

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1858

pg 333            F. Sorin had no sooner made himself acquainted with his field 
             of labor than he wrote to every place in France whence he could 
             expect help from men of prayer or of wealth.  His endeavors were 
             not fruitless.  Amongst the rest, they secured for him a new 
             missioner, one of his former fellow-students, a most cherished 
             friend, the Rev. F. Cointet, whose memory is held in benediction 
             through this extensive district.  He worked like an apostle for 
             eleven years in the mission, which he watered with his sweat 
             whilst edifying it by his great virtues and illustrating it by his 
             knowledge.
                  Three other missioners from France soon followed him, then a 
             fourth, and they all went to work with zeal and devotedness in the 
             vast field which the Father of the family had confided to the 
             young society of Holy Cross until they should themselves have 
             formed subjects on the spot who would afterwards enter into their 
             labors and reap the harvest.
                  God looked down upon this mission, and in his own good time 
             he provided the men and the means necessary.  F. Sorin and one of