. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. ar, toremain, however, only till the completion of the church. Which, says the entry in the Register, will permit us togive him a permanent and becoming sepulture conformableto his merit, and to the miracles which many trustworthypersons have reported to us to have been wrought throughhis intercession in favor of the whole parish. ^ The little French city of the West was honored, savs; Far- Collection de Manuscrits, iii., p. 348; N. Y. C
. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. ar, toremain, however, only till the completion of the church. Which, says the entry in the Register, will permit us togive him a permanent and becoming sepulture conformableto his merit, and to the miracles which many trustworthypersons have reported to us to have been wrought throughhis intercession in favor of the whole parish. ^ The little French city of the West was honored, savs; Far- Collection de Manuscrits, iii., p. 348; N. Y. Colonial Docu-ments, X., pp. 114-116; History of the Catholic Missions. p. are still extant two copies of a Huron Grammar written by FatherPntier, a work on Huron Radicals, and a Census of the Hurons. FatherPotier died at Sandwich, .July 16, 1781. * Register of the parish of St. Anne, Detroit. I BISHOP DE PONTBRIAND. 633 mer, by the presence of the Rt. Rev. Henry Mary du Breuilde Pontbriand, who extended his visitation to Detroit. Hededicated the new church on the 10th of March, 1755, andremained for some weeks in this i)ortion of his RT. REV. IIEXRY MARY DU BREUIL DE PONT-BRIAND, SIXTH BISHOP OF QUEBEC. The Rt. Rev. Henry Mary du Breuil de Pontbriand, sixthBishop of Quebec/ deserves especial mention in a history of ^ Mgr. Peter Herman Dosquet, a native of Lille, was consecrated Bishopof Samos at Rome on Christmas day, 1725, by Pope Benedict XIII. andappointed Coadjutor to Bishop Mornay, whom he succeeded in resigned the next year, having spent less than six years in Canada. 634 THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES. tlie Church in the United States, as he was the first incum-bent of that see who performed any episcopal function with-in our limits, having conferred confirmation at Ogdensburgand Detroit, and exerted himself earnestly to place the religiousaffairs of Louisiana on a sounder basis by committing author-ity in that province to more zealous and resjDon
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