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

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1880

pg 520       the famous Benjamin Petit, who died a martyr of his charity for 
             the Indians, had successively rested from their much longer and 
             severer fatigues.
                  Next morning he could thank heaven for the blessings and the 
             joys of the previous eventful day, at the very altar whereon F. 
             Deseille, an hour before his admirable death, had, with a 
             trembling hand, opened the tabernacle and communicated himself 
             with the holy viaticum, because no priest could be procured to 
             attend his last moments.  Haec meminisse juvabit.
                  Some day probably not far distant, a religious monument will 
             be erected at Notre Dame to perpetuate the memory of the above 
             glorious names, to which a fourth, no long, but rather much more 
             illustrious, that of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Brute, shall be added, to 
             the great joy of hundreds and thousands of honest souls, who knew 
             them to venerate and love them.
                  Sketches have been written of each of them: they form a 
             conspicuous part of the history of the Church of God in the west 
             of the United States.  But an especial tribute of respectful