jesuit priests
The Jesuit community was founded in the year 1540. Jesuit, or the Society of Jesus, played an important role in the renewal of the Catholic Church. Most of the early Jesuits were scholars, teachers, and also trained as missionaries. Some were also preachers who devoted all of their time to helping the sick, imprisoned, and wounded soldiers. In the year 1556, there were about a thousand Jesuits. One hundred years later, there were nearly fifteen thousand. After the next one hundred years, the numbers had nearly doubled. As you can see, the work done by these traveling men of God, was a very respectable one. There were a great number of Jesuit priests who came over to North America also. These men were very well know, some of them were more known for their exploring, rather than for their missionary work. One of the most
popular explorers of the North American continent is father Jacques Marquette. Father Marquette, as he was known, was born in Laon France. In the year 1666, he arrived in Canada, and was schooled in the languages, and the ways of the different Indian tribes that he lived with. For about 2 years, he did missions work in the areas now known as Michigan, and Wisconsin, until the year 1671, when he met his colleague to be, Louis Jolliet. Father Marquette established the first permanent mission to the local Chippewas in the year 1671. Along with partner, Louis Joliet, a well renowned French explorer, Marquette has reached fame by being remembered to most as the man that discovered the Northern Mississippi. They were the first people other than Indians to do so. As described in the following paragraph, the Jesuits are m
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