In the context of this artwork, analyze the Sorin’s Role in Founding Notre Dame of the Historical information.
Sorin was born in February 1814 near Laval, Mayenne. Following his ordination as a priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross, he traveled as a missionary to the United States where he worked in Indiana, what was then considered a very remote area of the nation. Accompanied by six brothers, he landed in New York and proceeded to Indiana where he acquired possession of 524 snow-covered acres of land from the Bishop of  Vincennes, Indiana. On November 26, 1842, Sorin began the foundation of the University of Notre Dame on this land.
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