FOUNDERS -- FOUNDING OF NOTRE DAME
Founders
"And yet, what the country needs desperately is a generation of teachers who are sure of their moral foundations -- men of convictions, men and women who built St. Mary's and Notre Dame." CENTENNIAL ADDRESS, 1944, AT ST. MARY'S BY FR. R. GANNON, S.J., PRESIDENT OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Founding
See: Sr. St. Francis' notes on "Holy Man of Tours" -- Life of M. Theodore, p. 208 -- "Sorin to Minims"(1842) -- Early N.D. -- Founding of Notre Dame, 1842 -- "Founder: Father Sorin, Brothers Francis Xavier, Gatian, Patrick, William, Basil, Peter, and Francis" SCHOLASTIC . . . 1912