id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt innd.00000008066185 St. Joseph's Church (South Bend, Ind.) An illustrated history of St. Joseph's Church, South Bend, Indiana. .txt text/plain 16159 3106 94 The Catholics of South Bend, however, were not as yet numerous enough, and consequently not as yet able to erect a church, and, like their brethren of the neighboring woods, towns, cities and states, they continued to depend on Notre Dame for their spiritual wants, which were administered by the Rev. Fathers Edward Sorin, Alexis Granger, Francis Cointet, Richard Shortis, Thomas Flynn, B. The same year, 1853, Father Sorin erected on the above-named property a brick structure, 22 x 40 feet to serve as a school and at the same time as a church for the Catholic population of South Bend. In the year 1862 Father Sorin erected a frame building, 18x26 feet on the Lowell Hights, on the place which is now known as the north-west corner of South Bend Avenue and Notre Dame street, to serve as a school for larger boys. ./cache/innd.00000008066185.pdf ./txt/innd.00000008066185.txt