People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — DEATH OF FATHER SORIN. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF FATHER SORIN.

Fonnder of the University of Notre Dame Fusses Away at South Dcnd, Ind. South Bend, Ind., Nov. 2. —Very Rev. Edward Sorin, supreme general of ( the Order of the Holy Cross and founder of the celebrated University of Notre Dame, died at 10 o’clock a. m. He had been ill for several weeks and his advanced age made his death almost certain. He passed away surrounded by the professors of the university. The immediate cause of death was Bright’s disease. [The deceased was born near Paris, France, February «, 1814. After graduating at the University of Paris he studied for the priesthood and was ordained June 6, 1838. Desiring to become a missionary among the American Indians he entered the newly founded Order of the Holy Cross. Although appointed bishop of Bengal he declined the office and sailed for New York, arriving there September 14, 1841. He at once went to Indiana and entered upon his work among the Indians. The superior of his order caused him to give up his cherished design, however, and directed him to found schools. He came to the present site of the University of Notre Dame, and in a log cabin on the banks of Lake Mary he, with six other members of the order, established a chapel and a dwelling place. Here the University of Notre Dame was started, and in 1844 a charter was secured from the state legislature. Now the university is the most important Roman Catholic educational scat in the country. In 1857 Father Sorin became provincial superior of the Order of the Holy Cros-s in the United States and in 1868 was elected superiorgeneral for life. He founded the order of Sisters of the Holy Cross,, of whom there are now nearly 1,000 engaged in teaching. In addition he established schools and colleges in nearly every state in the union.]