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Online Exhibits > Father Edward Sorin and the Founding of Notre Dame

On the 26th of November 1842, after a long journey in the snow, Fr. Edward Sorin and several Brothers of St. Joseph arrived at their destination. In the wilderness of Northern Indiana, at a place known as St. Mary of the Lake, they founded the University of Notre Dame.

 

Sorin's Birthplace, 1814

Sorin's Memoirs

Sorin and the Pottawatomi Indians, 1843

Sorin and Others Shipwrecked, 1875

Sorin's Death and Funeral, 1893