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

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1880

pg 510       mission under her maternal protection, to look up to her as to our 
             guiding star!  Mr. Leo Dupont was with us in the coach from Mans 
             to Havre.  He had volunteered to accompany us to the sea and to 
             arrange everything for our embarkation.  We were intimate friends.
                  He served us admirably for three days.  Without him we might 
             have found it impossible to take the sea.  He was the last to 
             shake hands with us several hours after the boat had left the 
             shore.  One may imagine his joy and his comments when he learned 
             the name of the festival on which we were leaving our friends at 
             Mans.  A few weeks before we had made together one of the three 
             hundred and sixty-five pilgrimages which he published some years 
             later in his beautiful Annee a Marie, in 2 vols.
                  I knew his admirable love of the Mother of God:  he thanked 
             her as only saints know how to thank heaven for deeply felt 
             favors.  I said my office in the coach--vespers and matins:  I 
             never felt happier; it seemed the Blessed Virgin claimed not only