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

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1861

pg 434       to do him justice, and seeking in the treasure-house of hope a 
             compensation for the injustices of this world.
                  The difficulties of Chicago are followed by those of Brother 
             Amedee of St. Laurent near Montreal.  This Brother had left Notre 
             Dame in the month of July 1860 to enter the province of Canada, 
             with the written permission of the Very Revered Father General, 
             but contrary to the formal prohibition of F. Sorin whom he thus 
             placed in the greatest embarrassment, quitting his obedience of 
             bookkeeper just at a time when he was alone in the office and when 
             his departure left it closed without anyone to take charge of it.
             He had sent his trunk to the railroad station, without having it