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This biography, first published in 1968, is the result of careful investigation into every phase of Father Marquette’s brief life, a few days short of thirty-eight years, 1637-75. The reader may learn here for the first time the accurate details of Marquette’s ancestry, his education, the early years of his Jesuit education in France, and the carefully documented history of his missionary career in New France. The map printed on the dust jacket is a reproduction of the map drawn by Father Marquette (see page 333). It shows the area covered by Marquette and Louis Jolliet on their journey made in the summer of 1673. Marquette compiled this map at the Jesuit mission located near the present Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he spent the winter of 1673-74. From this volume emerges a vivid, active, vigorous Jacques Marquette who dearly loved and profoundly understood the indigenous peoples of the Americas as few other missionaries did.
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Contents
Foreword
The Marquettes of Laon
Jacques Marquette, 1637 - 1654
Preparation, 1654 - 1666
New France, 1666
Apprentice, 1666 - 1668
Sainte-Marie-du-Sault, 1668 - 1669
La Pointe du Saint-Espirit, 1671 - 1673
The Mission of Saint Ignace, 1671 - 1673
Jean Talon and Louis Jolliet
Nations along the Mississipi
The Mission of the Immaculate Conception among the Illinois
Death in the Wilderness
Appendix one - Jacques Marquette, Priest
Appendix two - Jacques Marquette, Author of the Journal of the Expedition of 1673
Appendix three - A Letter of Father Pierre Cholenec to Father Jean de Fontenay
Appendix four - The Marquette Death Site
Appendix five - The Discovery of Father Marquette's Grave at Saint Ignace, Michigan
Appendix six - Genealogy
Documents
Marquette's map of the Mississipi
Marquette's recording of a baptism
Holograph copy of Marquette's last vows
Official record of Marquette's ordination
Bibliography
Index