History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . priestscame alone as far as the Jesuit missionat the Rapids. Their reception, whilecordial, was such as to leave no mistakein their mind that they were not returned to Montreal. To advise his superior about his ex-ploration at the Bay de Puants, Father .Sault. On the 27th of January fire re-duced to ashes the chapel as well as thehouse of the missio
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . priestscame alone as far as the Jesuit missionat the Rapids. Their reception, whilecordial, was such as to leave no mistakein their mind that they were not returned to Montreal. To advise his superior about his ex-ploration at the Bay de Puants, Father .Sault. On the 27th of January fire re-duced to ashes the chapel as well as thehouse of the missionaries, who were ableto save from this conflagration nothingbut the Blessed Sacrament. But if Godallowed the demons this sort of ven-genance. their malice did not greatlyprofit them; for soon another chapel waserected, much superior to the former one;and in it there were baptized in a single 36 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF day as many as twenty-six children, asif to consecrate it by such holy ceremon-ies. * Some writers of that day have de-scribed this second Jesuit chapel in sup-erlative terms, as being magnificent andendo\Ved with the richest it was superior to the one just de-stroyed by fire, is admitted by Dablon. ST. m.\rys church and presbytery, SAULT STE. MARIE, MICH. himself. But, that it was anything likewhat those terms would imply in thelanguage of this day, or even anythingout of the ordinary for those missiondays, is a mere exaggeration. The Sault, however, witnessed a bit of splendor unusual for her infant days,and it must have been close to the timeof the rebuilding of the church. Uponreturning to Canada, Monsieur Talon,the intendant of New France, had re-ceived orders from the King, Louis exert himself strenuously for the es-tablishment of Christianity here, by aid-ing the missions and to cause the nameand the sovereignty of the mon-arch to be acknowledged by eventhe least known and by the mostremote nations. To carry outthis command he chose
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