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

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1858

pg 340       te Domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
                  The work of the Sisters of Holy Cross is not known; it is 
             quite recent, have but patience for a little and you will see--at 
             least we hope so--that it is not a work of supererogation, but 
             contrariwise a work raised up precisely to meet some of the most 
             pressing wants of existing society, strongly organized by the 
             immediate direction of Rome, at present occupying all the 
             attention of the venerable founder of Holy Cross, until he shall 
             have exactly seized and reproduced in the Constitutions and their 
             relations in the Constitutions and their relations with the other 
             two societies, the views and desires of the tribunal which is to 
             approve them.  For our part--and we think ourselves well posted--
             we believe in their future and we bless God beforehand, even 
             amidst the embarrassments which they cause us.
                  The 4th charge, that F. Sorin had kept the money collected 
             for the asylum at Vincennes, needs no other answer than the 
             reproduction of the receipt for this same money, which is written