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

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1880

pg 525            But the outside monument is yet to desideratum.  May God 
             enable us soon to show to all, our veneration for the saintly 
             predecessor he himself sent to Notre Dame to lay the foundation of 
             an edifice which he will continue, we trust, to protect and assist 
             unto perfection.  He died here in his little log cabin in 1837, 
             but his memory is yet fresh and popular all around.  To let it die 
             out when it is so precious to religion would be an inexcusable 
             folly.
                  3.  The Rev. Benjamin Petit, who comes in third on the list, 
             remained here but a very short time, scarcely one year, and yet 
             he seems to be the best known and to have been the most loved.  
             History furnishes such examples of men so richly endowed, so 
             exceptionally drawing every one and everything to themselves, that 
             when a noble end is aimed at, genuine zeal finds in nature a help 
             which hardly anything can resist.  
                  Such was, it appears, even from childhood, the third 
             missionary of this western Indian mission.  Richly endowed by