Claude jean allouez biography template
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About Father Allouez
Claude Jean Allouez was born on June 6, , in Saint-Didier-En-Velay in south-central France. In , he was ordained a priest of the långnovell Catholic Church. He became a Jesuit missionary who established a number of missions in Wisconsin and has been called the founder of Catholicism in the West. He died on August 28, in Niles, Michigan.
Father Allouez was one of the leading missionaries in the Upper Midwest. In , Father Allouez established a new mission among the Potawatomie Tribe in the Green Bay area. He moved his mission to the present site of
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Kitch-Gami: Wanderings Round Lake Superior,
By Amorin Mello
&#;Soon after removing to stad, Bela Hubbard became acquainted with Douglas[s] Houghton, then State Geologist of Michigan, and in , was appointed Assistant Geologist on the State Geological Survey, a position which he held until He accompanied Douglass Houghton on an important expedition to the southern shore of Lake Superior, in , an account of which is given in his &#;Memorials of half a century.&#; It is this book more than anything else that will preserve the memory of its author. It is his most fitting and most enduring monument and entitles the name of Bela Hubbard to a place on the short list of American authors who may be justly termed &#;nature writers.'&#;
Quote from Report of the Michigan Academy of Science, Volume 4,
by Michigan Academy of Science Council, , page
This is a reproduction of &#;Lake Superior in &#; and illustrations from Memorials of a Half-Century, by Bela Hu
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Claude Jean Allouez died near present-day Niles, Michigan on August 27, , after almost 30 years spent in missionary work among the native peoples of the northeastern United States. He is credited with baptizing at least 10, native Americans, and instructing more than , The purpose of this paper is to look more closely at this impressive life's work, to see if a common thread can be found that will tell us something of who Allouez was, what motivated him, and what he was trying to accomplish in the wilds of North America. The paper is not meant to be the final word on Allouez or on Jesuit missionary activity in New France. It is offered as a eulogy to a man I have come to respect through three years' work with the documents he produced.
Allouez was born on the sixth of June, in the town of Saint-Didier, Haute-Loire, France. [1] Little is known about his parents, but they must have been fairly well-to-do, for they were able to give him a fine education. In October of ,