Notes V

1 Council of Professors, I, 10, Prov. Arch.

2 Brother Gatian, Chronicle, July, 1848. Prov. Arch.

3 Annales Générales de Sainte Croix 177-179. Gen. Arch.

4 According to the notes of Prof. Edwards, Bishop Lefevere of Detroit, after hearing Shawe preach, was so impressed by his zeal and talent that he took him to Detroit where he became pastor of the Cathedral and editor of the Catholic Vindicator. Lettres historianes, 1853-59. Prov. Arch.

5 Sorin to the Superior, St. Mary of the Wood, Oct. 16, 1854. Prov. Arch.

6 Sr. Mary Angela Gillespie, Life of Rev. Fr. Cointet, Priest and Missionary of the Congregation of Holy, Cross, 1855, 38-47.

7 Luers was born at Luetten Oldenburg, Germany, Sept. 29, 1819. He was ordained Nov. 11, 1846 at Cincinnati, and became Bishop of Fort Wayne, Jan. 10, 1858. He died June 29, 1871.

8 The annual income from the missions during the first fifteen years was as follows:

     1843, 1 missionary,   $ 112.08     1851, 5 missionaries, $ 989.93     1844, 2 missionaries,   213.59     1852, 5 missionaries,   744.50     1845, 3 missionaries,   121.37     1853, 6 missionaries,   908.24     1846, 3 missionaries,   142.13     1854, 5 missionaries,   726.17     1847, 4 missionaries,   286.54     1855, 4 missionaries,   901.00     1848, 6 missionaries,  1034.18     1856, 4 missionaries,   735.70     1849, 5 missionaries,   650.89     1857, 4 missionaries,   569.82     1850, 4 missionaries,   609.48

This meant an average income per missionary of $143.37 per year. Sorin, Chronicle, 236.

9 Golden Jubilee, 69-70, and Silver Jubilee, 33.

10 Sorin, Chronicle. 121.

11 Cf. Johnson, Peter Leo, Stuffed Saddlebags. The Life of Martin Kundig, Priest 1805-1879. Milwaukee, 1942, 146.

12 Golden Jubilee, 65.

13 It was on the site of the third infirmary built in 1864 and torn down in 1939.

14 St. Joseph Valley Register, August 10, 1848, 3.

15 Brother Gatian, Chronicle, May 25, 1848. Prov. Arch.

16 Sorin, Chronicle, 84-85.

17 Neal Gillespie to Eliza Gillespie, Nov. 11, 1849, UNDA.

18 Sorin, Chronicle, 89.

19 Ibid., 102. Cf. also Sorin, Memoranda, Prov. Arch.

20 According to information supplied by K. P. Aldrich, Chief Inspector of the Post Office Department, Washington.

21 Sorin, Chronicle, 102.

22 Arch. of N. D. no. 49, 11. Prov. Arch.

23 Arch. of N. D. no. 30, 58. Prov. Arch.

24 Local Council Book, 1857, 25. Prov. Arch.

25 Annales Générales de Sainte Croix, 306. Gen. Arch. An order of the minor chapter Jan. 10, 1848, limited the ringing of the bell to five minutes "lest the motion might injure the house."

26 Golden Jubilee, p. 84.

27 Council of Professors, II, Prov. Arch.

28 Council of Professors, I, Dec. 7, 1844. Prov. Arch.

29 Golden Jubilee, 58.

30 Sorin to Moreau, July 4, 1845. Gen. Arch.

31 Philadelphia Catholic Herald, August 28, 1845. It is reprinted in the Golden Jubilee, 64-67.

32 Brother Gatian, Chronicle, July 4, 1847. Prov. Arch.

33 Ibid., July, 1848. Prov. Arch.

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