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

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1880

pg 512       and left us in want.  If time permits I will relate some more, 
             were it only to show to our dear religious of the Holy Cross in 
             America how good the Mother of God has been to them from the 
             beginning; how much they owe her and what boundless return of 
             gratitude and love she has a right to expect from each of them.
                  The above three first delicious etapes in a little more than 
             two months were too significant to be passed unnoticed by young 
             missionaries whose souls were wholly absorbed in on same thought, 
             viz:  to make known in the New World the Holy Mother of God, to 
             whom they had consecrated their best love.  For her they had left 
             all; for her they actually lived; for her they passionately wished 
             to spend themselves and be spent to the end of their life.  If she 
             blessed their labors, they had not even a doubt their mission 
             would prove a success.
                  Without her they could not account to any man for the first 
             elements of Christianity; [they could] not even explain to 
             heathens the Apostles' Creed itself.  Like the happy shepherds of