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Jacques Marquette

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SKU:
1150
UPC:
9780829400243
Author:
Joseph P. Donnelly, S.J.
Binding:
Cloth
Publication Date:
1985
Pages:
395 pages
ISBN:
0829400249
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Product Overview

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

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