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 . , encampingevery night with his partyon shore. ^^ Of this so-journ at Mackinac the firstrecord is made in the bap-tismal entry of Mary Mc-Gulpin on August 4th,1821, and the last on thesixteenth day of the samemonth and year. One can])etter imagine than de-scribe his activity for, aftersuch an unusually longabsence of a priest, his ar-rival must have been as re-
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 . , encampingevery night with his partyon shore. ^^ Of this so-journ at Mackinac the firstrecord is made in the bap-tismal entry of Mary Mc-Gulpin on August 4th,1821, and the last on thesixteenth day of the samemonth and year. One can])etter imagine than de-scribe his activity for, aftersuch an unusually longabsence of a priest, his ar-rival must have been as re-freshing to the little com-munity as a cool draught toST. Josephs church, house and school, h.^ncock, mich. ^^^q thirsty. To become all Annes parish at Detroit through the op- to all his activity must have been incessantposition of some trustees to a new church for besides the daily instruction of youngsite, was greatly responsible for the long and old preparing them for confession , , , , , , , , r^ and first holy communion, he conferred ? On the fly-leaf of the second volume of Bap- ,? , , t ^ tisms is pasted a slip, most likely by Father baptism, or supplied the same, on torty- Richard, on which is recorded the baptism of. Paul Tusignan. It is dated at :\Iichilimackinac,September 9, 1818 and is signed by Josrfh Crcv-icr, Prctrc missioiwii-e. The slip bears no fur-ther information. The priest must have beenpassing the Island on his way to some other mis-sions and performed the above act. Cpt. Kelton,has him in his list as having served the parishfrom 1816-1818. If this were the case, therewould be a trace of his services on the parishrecords. seven persons and blessed three mar-riages, which had been civilly enteredupon, which fact he duly mentions in thetext of the record, and in which we areinformed that these facts were performed Whites Memoirs. SAULT STE. MARIE AND MARQUETTE 175 by the soiissignc cure dc Stc. Anne duDetroit. The Catholic wliite population of Mich-igan at
Size: 1774px × 1408px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidhistoryofdio, bookyear1906
