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

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1860

pg 401       solid footing, the Bishop having trouble transferred it over to the 
             Congregation of Holy Cross for fifty years, in the same manner as 
             he had given St. Michael's to the Redemptorist Fathers.
                  Considering the improved condition of the two Societies which 
             were at this time becomingly and canonically established on the 
             premises leased from the Bishop; considering the dispositions of 
             the Bishop which seemed to be most favorable; considering finally 
             the standing on which the schools and the parish had been placed, 
             and notwithstanding the debts, the future of the Congregation in 
             this city was more encouraging than it had been for two or three 
             years.  Unfortunately the resources of the West were exhausted; 
             the lack of money had become really embarrassing.  Chicago is the 
             centre of the West, which it represents in times of want as well 
             as of plenty.

                  Hardly were the Easter holidays over when St. Joseph's 
             congregation in Chicago began once more to be restless.  This time