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

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1880

pg 523       he himself never doubted.  He rejoiced in it as he never did in 
             any other undertaking.  He looked upon it, not as a proof of his 
             personal foresight or sagacity, but as a superior design of which 
             he had been the simple instrument.
                  So deeply was he convinced of this that when he revisited it 
             he gave it all he possessed, $6000, on which he received a little 
             annuity until he died in 1853.
                  Here the mustard seed planted by the missioner's hand grew 
             and gradually and providentially developed into a tree in the 
             branches of which the birds of the air have come to rest and dwell.
             This is, indeed, F. Badin's principal mission, where his labors 
             have been especially blessed.
(1832)            2.  Rev. Louis Deseille. Next in point of time and importance 
             comes the saintly Mr. Deseille, who fixed here his general 
             quarters as a resident missionary of Indians and while Christians 
             during the five years he lived in the country until his death in 
             the fall of 1837.  It was he, properly speaking, who created the