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

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1859

pg 356       had cost much, and which appeared to be full of promise for the 
             Congregation.  This matter will be spoken of in due time and in 
             detail.
                  
                  The same year was marked by the withdrawal of a greater 
             number of Brothers than usual.  A certain professed Brother, 
             Ambrose, who had been an annoyance to the society for nearly ten 
             years by his spirit of conviviality, levity, and murmuring, took 
             matters into his own hands and went his way whence he had come, 
             with the promise of the Provincial to have his retirement 
             accepted.  Another professed member named Arsene, whose brain had 
             been weakening by degrees for a year and who began to excite 
             apprehensions by his Cassandrian predictions and his threats of 
             fire and ashes, one fine morning declared positively to his 
             brethren that the Pope had called him to Rome and that he was 
             going, adding, however strange his language might appear at the 
             time, that he had not doubt of his future election to the See of 
             St. Peter.