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Jesuit missionaries had to write annual reports to their superior in Québec or Montréal as an account of their activities. Annually, between 1632 and 1673, the superior compiled a narrative or "Relation" of the most important events which had occurred in the several missionary districts under his charge, sometimes using the exact words of the missionaries and sometimes summarizing the ...
The Jesuit missionaries who came to New France in the seventeenth century aimed to both convert native peoples such as the Huron to Christianity and also to instill European values within them. [10] Jesuit planners believed that by creating European social institutions and patterns, conversion would become easier: linking European lifestyle as ...
Le Jeune was born to a Huguenot family in Vitry-le-François in the region of Champagne, France in 1591, and converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of sixteen. [1] Le Jeune received a thorough preparation for the Jesuit priesthood; he was a novice for two years between 1613 and 1615, and he was deeply influenced by his mentor Father Massé, whom he met at the collège Henri IV de La Flèche.
However, as relations between the French and the Iroquois were tense, the missions were all abandoned by 1708. [1]: 73 Some converted Iroquois and members of other nations migrated to Canada, where they joined the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake by 1718. The Jesuit mission at Detroit was moved to Bois Blanc Island in 1742.
François Joseph le Mercier (4 October 1604 – 12 June 1690) was a prominent French Jesuit in the early missions to New France and the Huron people. He was the rector of the Jesuit college in Quebec and superior of the whole Canada mission from 1653–56 and again 1665-70, during which period he authored The Jesuit Relations, as well as two published works concerning the Huron missions in the ...
The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ ʒ u ɪ t s, ˈ dʒ ɛ zj u-/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-; [2] Latin: Iesuitae), [3] is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
Poncet entered the Jesuit novitiate in Paris at nineteen, as a student in rhetoric and philosophy. He pursued his studies at Rouen, and taught at Orléans (1631-4). [1] Then he began his theological studies at Clermont, completing them at Rome. While at Orleans, he met the son of the widow Marie Guyart.