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

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1861

pg 430                                   Very Respectfully your humble Svt., 
                                         E. Sorin, C.S.C.
                  Three days afterwards the college and the two Brothers' 
             schools, the Sisters' day-school and their German parish school 
             were closed, without the utterance of the least complaint as to 
             the Bishop's conduct.  But it seems that the more each member of 
             the Congregation was on his guard, so much the more free did 
             public sentiment feel to express itself in their regard.  The 
             sensation was too profound not to become annoying to the Bishop.  
             The day after next he wrote to the Father Superior to tell him 
             that, instead of six weeks, he could allow him only three in which 
             to vacate the premises, and that if all the members were not gone 
             in eight days, he would appeal to the law.
                  Thus it was ever the law, scandals, and the threat that if 
             the Congregation gave him the least trouble, he would forbid all 
             his clergy to send even one child to Notre Dame, and he would not 
             even give permission to any of the Fathers of Holy Cross to say 
             mass in his diocese.