Pioneer Priests of North America, 1642-1710

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PAUL LE JEUNE CHAPTER I. Wintering With The Savages. The distinguished historian of New York, Dr. O'Cal- laghan, calls Le Jeune " the Father of the Canadian Missions." He was so in fact, and the reasons of this distinction are as follows: (i) When Canada was restored to the French, he was selected as Superior. (2) It was he who rebuilt the dilapidated residence and church of Notre Dame des Anges. He established the first parish of Quebec, that of Notre Dame de Recouvrance. (4) He organized the missions of Miscou, Tadoussac, and Three Rivers. (5) He conceived the idea of Sillery as an Algonquin Reservation. (6) He instituted a native school for Indian boys, and prompted Marie de 1'Incarnation to undertake the education of Indian girls. (7) He founded the College of Quebec, and suggested to Cardinal Richelieu's niece, the Duchesse d'Aiguillon, to build the first hospital in Canada, the Hotel Dieu of Quebec. As far as we are aware, he was the only one of the early missionaries who was a convert from Protestantism. He was born at Chalons-sur-Marne, in July, 1591, and when still a young man he became a Catholic in spite of the bitter opposition of his family. He entered the Society of Jesus at Rouen, September 22, 1613; studied philosophy at La Fleche, was professor at Rennes, Bourges and Nevers, and then followed the four years' course of theology at Clermont. The famous Louis Lalemant was his spiritual guide in the Tertianship, and after that we find him teaching rhetoric, and preaching at Dieppe, and subsequently presiding overthe Residence of that place. He was occupying that position when the question began to be mooted about resuscitating the missions of Canada, if ever the colony were restored to France. At first there was no thought of entrusting the work to the Je...

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