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

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1880

pg 511       my thoughts and affections, but my whole life:  she wanted all I 
             could give.  Oh! how glad I would have been to give her something 
             worth offering and receiving!  My only consolation then was to 
             make no reserve.  But insignificant as was my poor return, she 
             seemed to accept it.
                  Since this first mark of maternal tenderness, who could 
             enumerate the daily proofs she has given us of her undying love?  
             To whom was I indebted a little later on for celebrating my first 
*in Logans-  mass in Indiana on Rosary Sunday?*  and for reaching Vincennes, 
port invited the end of our long journey, in time to say my mass and preach 
by the V.R.  before our venerated Bishop on the solemnity of her Divine 
Martin,      Maternity?  I should have been stone blind not to recognize on the 
since Bishop above three occasions the loving hand of a Mother even if she had 
of Natchez   entirely withdrawn her sensible protection all the time 
             intervening.  But of the two months and six days that our journey 
             lasted, I could not point to a single one on which she forgot us