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

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1862

pg 463       chaplain was the Rev. F. Bourget, who had come the year before 
             from the Mother House in France.  All three were excellent 
             religious.  They were greatly lamented by those for whom they had 
             sacrificed their lives, as well as by their fellow-religious at 
             Notre Dame and at St. Mary's.
                  Those sacrifices were undoubtedly a gain for the victims:  
             [and] they gave the Congregation of Holy Cross, in the eyes of the 
             public, a consecration that it had not before received and which 
             surrounded it with a happy prestige in the New World.
                  Whilst it was thus gaining an enviable reputation in the 
             outside world, the demon jealous as he always is of all that is 
             good, and especially of the salvation of souls, made ready to 
             attack the Congregation at the very centre of its life and its 
             prosperity, and he nearly succeeded in utterly destroying it.  
             Never perhaps were men more united in a common devotedness to the 
             same work, and never did the spirit of darkness succeed better in