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and religious forced into exile, by the 1820s most of the nation was ill-catechized, illiterate, and without benefit of the sacraments. Restoration of the Church was the principal theme and work of Moreau's life. As a young priest and throughout his life, Moreau was an effective preacher who preached parish missions and offered the sacraments on an itinerant basis to rekindle the neglected faith in towns and villages throughout the region.
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campus, is the main seminary for the
American province of the Congregation of Holy Cross. In 1841, Moreau sent Edward Sorin and six brothers to the Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana to assist the bishop is setting up a school for boys. A year later, the bishop gave them land at the northern end of the
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Taking his inspiration from Dujarié, Moreau named the societies the
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Following the developments of 1835, which placed in Moreau's hands all the pieces of a nascent religious community, he began to lay the groundwork for just that. In 1837, under the leadership of Moreau, the
Brothers of St. Joseph and the Society of Auxiliary Priests joined by signing together the
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began as a community college with the mission of helping students with the intent to transfer into one of the other two institutions. However, in 2003 Holy Cross
College became a residential baccalaureate liberal arts college with its own reputation for superior teaching. Basil Hall, a men's
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Moreau was able to receive a good primary education by the generosity of his parish priest Abbé Julian Le
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in Notre Dame, Indiana. Dozens of other schools, colleges, and universities around the world have been erected under the auspices of the four congregations of Holy Cross who continue to follow in the footsteps of their founder.
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women to be so joined in a canonically recognised congregation. To this day, though in separate congregations, the priests, brothers and sisters of Holy Cross refer to themselves collectively as the Holy Cross Family.
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residential hall at Holy Cross College, is named in honor of Moreau. Holy Cross College's mascot is a
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