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

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1859

pg 370       of Chicago, the only schoolhouse that he had time to inspect, that 
             of the cathedral itself, appeared to him so unfit that he forbade 
             the Brothers who taught there at the time, to continue school 
             until the building had been thoroughly repaired; and he at once 
             notified the Bishop whilst thanking him for a favor which it may 
             be well to mention here. 
                  The Very Rev. F. Moreau having gone with F. Sorin to present 
             his respects to the Bishop of Chicago, the latter began to 
             eulogize the Rev. F. Sorin, whereupon the V. R. Founder remarked 
             that he did not consider F. Sorin deserving of much praise in the 
             contract he had made with His Lordship, and that unless some help 
             were given him, he did not see how the establishment could pay an 
             annual rental of $2150.  The Bishop answered immediately that he 
             was well aware that the schools had brought in but little, and to 
             make up for the deficiency, he would order a collection to be 
             taken up for that purpose in all the churches of the city, and 
             that this collection would continue every year on the same Sunday,