Lilly Endowment, Inc. Plaque

ID: 2303 ~ Source: Norbert Brown Collection, Knox County Public Library ~ Date: 2019
This file appears in: Old Cathedral’s Bruté Library
Lilly Endowment, Inc. Plaque

In 1968 The Brute Library was erected in to protect and help preserve the priceless collection now held within the structure.

This file appears in: Old Cathedral’s Bruté Library

By Knox County Public Library
Who is Bishop Simon Bruté? He was a brilliant man whose remains are interred in a crypt beneath the altar in the Old Cathedral behind you. Bruté was born and raised in Rennes, France in 1779. He studied in France and became a medical doctor during…