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

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1880

pg 524       mission, and he enriched it, not only by his liberal and continual 
             alms to the poor Indians in Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois, but 
             by his incessant apostolic zeal and most edifying life, and above 
             all, possibly, by his memorable and angelic death, which alone 
             would forever place him amongst the holiest missioners of the 
             Church, and surrounded his mortal remains and the blessed spot 
             where they rest, with a halo of sanctity, which has been 
             considered, since forty-five years, as an undoubted pledge of 
             extraordinary blessings upon the labors of those who would come 
             after him, to continue and develop his great work.  Who could 
             remember such a death and not say: "Oh!  may my last moments be 
             like his!"  The possession of such precious remains is, for Notre 
             Dame, a treasure beyond value.
                  Three times already since our religious of the Holy Cross 
             knelt around those venerated remains have they been religiously 
             removed, each time to occupy a more honorable place.