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

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1859

pg 357            Seven novice Brothers disappeared successively either of 
             their own accord of with the consent of the superiors, or because 
             it was not thought advisable to keep them.  None of them was 
             regretted as a loss; and at the annual retreat in the month of 
             August the Congregation had an appearance of health, life, and 
             zeal such as it never had before.  The society of the Fathers was 
             represented by eleven professed and four novices; that of the 
             Brothers by one hundred and seven members--professed, novices, and 
             postulants--in all one hundred and twenty-two.
                  On the fifth day of the retreat the seven bells of Notre Dame 
             rang out at full swing during the particular examination.  The 
             Archbishop of Baltimore had come to visit Notre Dame and to spend 
             twenty-four hours amid this young family, some members of which he 
             had had for several years in his Archdiocese (at Washington), and 
             a new colony of whom were preparing to start for the city of 
             Baltimore.
                  His visit could not have been more opportune.  He came from