This sweeping volume offers the definitive account of the life and
labors of Edward Sorin, founder of the University of Notre Dame.
Born in the west of France in 1814, Sorin was ordained in 1838 and
joined the newly founded Congregation of Holy Cross shortly
thereafter. In 1841, Father Sorin, along with six Holy Cross
brothers, was sent to establish a mission in Indiana. After a
year's service in the Vincennes diocese's fledgling parochial
schools, Sorin was offered a tract of land in the diocese's
northernmost section -- on the condition that a college be situated
there. Father Sorin and his companions arrived at the lakeside
property, located near the south bend of the St. Joseph River, in
November 1842.
The next year, the state of Indiana granted a charter to what
Sorin proudly and reverently called the University of Notre Dame du
Lac. In its early days, Father Sorin's "university" was composed of
a few log shacks and a handful of half-educated brothers, only a
few of whom could speak English. There was no money and hardly any
students.
But Father Sorin, by sheer willpower, was determined that his
university would prosper. Marvin O'Connell writes, "So confident
was he in his own powers, so sure of the ultimate righteousness of
his goals, so deep his faith that God and the Virgin Mary had
summoned him to America to accomplish this great work, that no
obstacle could confound him. He was capable of duplicity,
pettiness, and even ruthlessness. But for sheer courage, and for
the serene determination that courage gives birth to, he was hard
to match."
Little by little, Notre Dame evolved in its curriculum and
pedagogical standards. At the same time, another evolution was
takingplace. Sorin came to America as a missionary first and an
educator second. What began in Sorin's mind as an institution that
could monetarily support the work of the Holy Cross mission,
instead took center stage in a way that Sorin could never have
anticipated. Flexible as always though, he readily adapted to this
changing reality and began the development of the Notre Dame we
know today.
Edward Sorin is a lively, colorful history of the man who
overcame great odds to found and grow one of the world's premier
Catholic institutions of higher learning.
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