defended Catholicism, particularly in a series of "Letters to an Episcopalian Friend" published in the Catholic Telegraph of Cincinnati in 1836. In September 1846, Badin accepted a position offered by Bishop Quarter of the new Diocese of Chicago, and became pastor of the French settlement at Bourbonnais Grove, in what became Kankakee County, Illinois. Badin remained there for two years before taking one last missionary trip through the Kentucky diocese in 1848 (which lasted about two years). He also gave considerable land to the diocese of Bardstown/Louisville, and wrote a poem in French about the Battle of Tippecanoe. Badin gave of land near South Bend, Indiana to the Diocese of Vincennes, which had been created in 1834. This later became the site of the University of Notre Dame. Badin also organized the first orphanage in the state of Indiana, in 1834, under the direction of two religious women from Kentucky, Sister Lucina Whitaker and Sister Magadalen Jackson. Later years and death About 1850 Badin returned to Cincinnati. Although his friend Bishop Fenwick had died in 1832, his successor, Bishop John Baptist Purcell offered the aging missionary a place at the bishop's residence. Father Badin also served at St. Mary's Church in nearby Hamilton, Ohio. He died at the old episcopal residence on Plum Street in 1853, and was buried at the cathedral crypt. In 1906 his body was re-interred at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana in the recently completed replica log chapel on the site of the chapel Badin had erected there eight decades earlier. Legacy A Catholic High School, Father Stephen T. Badin High School, located in Hamilton, Ohio was named in his honor. There is a Badin Hall on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. References 1768 births History of Catholicism in the United States American Roman Catholic priests French emigrants to the United States French Roman Catholic missionaries Clergy from Orléans University of Notre Dame people 1853 deaths History of Catholicism in Indiana Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States