OUR FOUNDER:

• Motivation
• Mission
• Mound
• Maturity

Our Founder

In Celebration of Fr. Samuel Mazzuchelli, OP

November 4, 2006 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fr. Samuel Mazzuchelli, OP, founder of the community of Dominican sisters in Sinsinawa, WI and of St. Clara Academy, the school that grew into Dominican University. To celebrate this momentous anniversary, we’ve prepared a brief history of our community’s first leader.

• Part 1: Motivation
• Part 2: Mission
• Part 3: Mound
• Part 4: Maturity

For more information about Fr. Samuel Mazzuchelli, OP—including the efforts to have him canonized as a saint—we recommend the following site.