Franciscan herald (1913 - 1940) . eturned the stolenarticles to the missionary, dread-ing to keep the wicked magi-cians medicine lest it shouldharm them. The report of the shameful treat-ment undergone by the poor priestat the hands of the Neutrals cameto the ears of Fathers Breboeufafid Noue in the Huron country,and they immediately sent a French-man named Grenol to bring Fatherde la Roche to them. This wasdone; and it is from the Huron vil-lage Troanchain that he wrote anaccount of his sufferings to his fel-low religious in Quebec. Considering this state of affairs,we need not wonder that li
Franciscan herald (1913 - 1940) . eturned the stolenarticles to the missionary, dread-ing to keep the wicked magi-cians medicine lest it shouldharm them. The report of the shameful treat-ment undergone by the poor priestat the hands of the Neutrals cameto the ears of Fathers Breboeufafid Noue in the Huron country,and they immediately sent a French-man named Grenol to bring Fatherde la Roche to them. This wasdone; and it is from the Huron vil-lage Troanchain that he wrote anaccount of his sufferings to his fel-low religious in Quebec. Considering this state of affairs,we need not wonder that little pro-gress was made in converting theIndians. The Fathers had a veryimperfect knowledge of the Indianlanguages spoken in these parts,and hence were not able to refutethe absurd lies told of them and togain the favor of the the other hand, the Indianswho had more than once beenabused and maltreated by the col-onists, were only too ready to be-lieve the worst things of the Frenchand the missionaries. To be continued). 470 FRANCISCAN HERALD FEAST OF ST. MICHAEL AT SACATON FLATS,ARIZONA By Fr. Gerard, THE patronal feast of St. Micha-el the Archangel was celebra-ted this year by the Pima In-dians at Sacaton Flats, on the Sun-day preceding the feast. This daywas chosen, because more Indiansare able to participate in the festiv-ities when they are held on a Sun-day, than when they occur duringthe week. As all Catholic Indianfestivals, this, too, proved a mostjoyous occasion. The preparationsbegan on the Friday morning be-fore the feast. About thirty youngIndians arrayed as typical cowboys,began the search for the doomedfestive steer that roamed the brushnear the village. It was a hugeanimal of the Texas type whichfor years had enjoyed its freedomin the thick mosquito brush, andnaturally was very wild and formi-dable. The Indians decided onthis one as it was a constant men-ace to the fields round about, andhad already done much damage toto the cornfields in its fr
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