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

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1864

pg 485            For twenty years those dear Sisters have devoted themselves 
             to the service of Notre Dame du Lac, and the success with which it 
             is crowned at the present day is in no small measure due to them.  
             During the first twelve years when they formed an integral part of 
             the community, their fidelity in all their trying labors was 
             simply beyond praise.  Since the separation separate accounts were 
             kept at St. Mary's, as was but right; but the devotedness of the 
             forty Sisters to Notre Dame du Lac has remained the same, equal to 
             all the requirements of the institute which they love as in the 
             first days.
                  They were born here in the paternal house, and the mutual 
             desire is that the sentiments of their early childhood never 
             undergo the slightest change.  What is done contentedly and 
             lovingly is generally well done.  It is not only in the kitchen, 
             but in all the important employments wherein they are engaged that 
             they need to be sustained by this interior content.  Their 
             devotedness is a blessing to the whole institution.