Excerpt from Silver Jubilee of the University of Notre Dame: June 23rd, 1869

On a cold November evening in the year of grace, 1842, a young priest stood near the old log house on the banks of the little lake called St. Mary's, and viewed for the first time the principal field of his future labors. The frozen lake, the prairie beyond it, the small portion of cleared ground were all covered with snow, the branches of the trees drooped under the weight of the snow, the evergreens, even the rail-fences, and the stumps that thickly studded the ten acre lot, were ren dered fairy like with snow, snow, cold, pure, beautify ing snow lay thick and heavy all around, and as the rays of the setting sun, struggling through the winter clouds, cast. Their magic light over the wide expanse of snow-covered land, the young priest consecrated it anew to the Virgin Mother of God, to whom, in his great love for her, all his undertakings, great or small, were always lovingly submitted.

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