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

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1880

pg 521       gratitude is due them where they labored so faithfully and so 
             efficiently.  The best proof their honest and happy survivors can 
             offer of their real appreciation of their merits and of the 
             services rendered by them to the cause of religion and 
             civilization, should be a substantial one, viz a lasting monument, 
             for the consolation of the present generation and the instruction 
             of ages to come.  "Let the memory of the wicked perish with a 
             noise."  The sooner the better.  "But let us praise forever the 
             memory of the just;" for hereby the living man honors himself.
                  It would be a disgrace to Notre Dame and to St. Joseph County 
             to leave much longer such names unrecorded for public gratitude.  
             Not another spot on our vast continent is under such obligations 
             to the modest and yet heroic names above mentioned.
                  1.  Father Badin, the protopriest of the United States, is 
             known all over the New World, where he spent himself for more than