| Saint Edward's Hall | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1882 |
| Type | Residence Hall |
| Rector | Rev. Ralph Haag, C.S.C. |
| Location | Notre Dame, Indiana, USA |
| Undergraduate residents | 162 |
| Colors | Green/Gold |
| Mascot | Gentlemen |
| Website | [1] |
St. Edward's Hall is one of the thirty undergraduate residence halls on the campus of the University of Notre Dame and one of fifteen male dormitories. Saint Edward's Hall is located directly east of Main Building and is directly west of Zahm Hall. Saint Edward's Hall (also referred to as "St. Ed's") houses 162 undergraduate students. St. Ed's main dorm rivalries are with Zahm Hall and the newly opened Duncan Hall.
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Saint Edward's Hall was built in 1882 as a boarding school. In 1925 Knute Rockne received his First Holy Communion in the Chapel of Saint Edward the Confessor. Because of this, Saint Edward's Hall is the only dormitory at the University of Notre Dame that appears in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1929 it was converted into an undergraduate residence hall and has since housed undergraduate males, making it the oldest University building used as a residence hall. In the summer of 1981, the third and fourth floors of the building caught fire and were heavily damaged but have since been rebuilt.
Saint Edward's Hall's signature annual event is Founder's Day and Founder's Week. It is celebrated on the week of October 13 and it includes a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, historical lectures, talent show, and a special dormitory Mass. There is also an annual Spring excursion to Chicago, the Yacht Dance, in which the Gentlemen take part in a dance aboard a chartered yacht.
The Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor contains eight stained glass windows depicting various saints, Saint Edward among them, which date to the early 1900s. The same French company also completed a large stained glass portrait of the University's founder Father Edward Sorin, which is found in the central stairwell. In addition, St. Edward's second floor also boasts a mural by the famous Vatican muralist Luigi Gregori, whose work also adorns the Main Building, and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart (and whose paintings were large for no reason other than that he possessed only large paint brushes, having left the smaller ones in Rome). The mural depicts a meeting between Father Sorin and the local Native Americans at the founding of the University in 1842. The residence hall is the oldest building on campus currently in use as an undergraduate dormitory, and its original wing is constructed of the signature yellow bricks dredged by Holy Cross religious from the marl found in the University's two lakes.
Fr. Ralph Haag, C.S.C., is the current rector of Saint Edward's Hall. Fr. Haag graduated from Creighton University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in business administration, and he graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 with a master's degree in divinity. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 2004, and he was the associate pastor of Saint Gregory the Great Parish in Phoenix, Arizona, for three years before becoming the rector of Saint Edward's Hall in 2006.
Fr. Haag is Director of Latino Ministry at the University of Notre Dame. He is also Associate Director of the Congregation of Holy Cross Vocations Program.
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