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 . THE priests old RESIDENCE, REPUBLIC, MICHIGAN. WITH THECHURCH IN TORN DOWN. Walker, of Detroit, and was thus en-abled, to my very great satisfaction, toverify the sketch as shown to me byFather Jacker. La Hontan says: The place whichI am now in, is not above half a leaguedistant from the Illinois Lake. Here theHurons and Onatawas have each of em(sic) a v
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 . THE priests old RESIDENCE, REPUBLIC, MICHIGAN. WITH THECHURCH IN TORN DOWN. Walker, of Detroit, and was thus en-abled, to my very great satisfaction, toverify the sketch as shown to me byFather Jacker. La Hontan says: The place whichI am now in, is not above half a leaguedistant from the Illinois Lake. Here theHurons and Onatawas have each of em(sic) a village, the one being severedfrom the other by a single palisade. Butthe Ontawas are beginning to build a 134 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF fort upon a hill that stands but one thou-sand or one thousand two hundred pacesoff. In this place the Jesuits have alittle house or college, adjoining to asort of chapel and inclosed with pale,which separates it from the village of theHurons. Reference is made to the lo-cation in La Hontan. Vol. i, p. 88. From that moment I entertained themost sanguine hope that the long-lost. THE ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH, REPUBLIC, MICH. grave of the good Marquette would againbe found. Greatly did I regret that Icould not remain a few days longer,when the exploration would be made inthe presence of the excellent BishopMrak, and learn what would be the re-sult. I saw nothing whatever in thewell-known character of the Bishop, orof the worthy pastor of St. Ignace, tojustify even for a moment the least sus- picion of anything like pious , September 3, 1877, BishopMrak dug out the first spadeful ofground. For a time, however, the searchwas discouraging. Nothing was foundthat would indicate the former existenceof a tomb, vaulted or otherwise, and thebishop went away. After awhile, a smallpiece of birch bark came to light, fol-lowed by numerous other fragmentsscorched by fire. Finally, a largerand well-preserved piece appeared,which once evidently formed a p
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