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

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1861

pg 420            Meanwhile the few evil-disposed persons that have been 
             referred to in the matter of the German church, returned to the 
             charge, and by means of representations that would not have been 
             even listened to by a Bishop well disposed, they persuaded him to 
             take St. Joseph's church suddenly from the Congregation and to 
             transfer it to a priest of their own choice, whom they afterwards 
             drove away:  and this contrary to all justice as well as to the 
             repeated assurances of the Bishop.  Thus after four years of 
             devotedness and of services such as had never before been bestowed 
             on this parish, the Congregation was deprived of the principal 
             support which it found there to meet its engagements.  This was 
             not merely withholding protection, but it was ratifying a loss 
             which he well knew would be fatal to the Congregation in Chicago.  
             This church had been given from the first as the only assured 
             source of revenue from which to pay the annual rent of the 
             college.