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 . ue of the BlessedVirgin, the most appropriate spot for theinterment of the champion of Mary Im-maculate. An inscription, on paper, in-dicating whose bones were contained inthe box, might have been placed withinit; of this the piece of white paper wefound among the bark may be a frag-ment. The poor casket rested after theIndian fashion on wooden supports. Itmay
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 . ue of the BlessedVirgin, the most appropriate spot for theinterment of the champion of Mary Im-maculate. An inscription, on paper, in-dicating whose bones were contained inthe box, might have been placed withinit; of this the piece of white paper wefound among the bark may be a frag-ment. The poor casket rested after theIndian fashion on wooden supports. Itmay have been covered with mortar andwhite lime or else a little vault construct-ed of wood and mortar may have been 142 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF erected over it. When the building wasfired, twenty-nine years after the inter-ment, the burning floor together withpieces of timber from above fell on thetomb, broke the frail vault or mortarcover of the box, burned its top, andcrisped its sides. Some of the pagam orapostate Indians remaining in thatneighborhood after the transmigrationof the Hurons and Ottawas to Detroit,though filled with veneration for the de-parted missionary (as their descendantsremained through four or five genera-. TUE sisters convent, ASSININS, MICH. tions) or rather for the very reason oftheir high regard for his priestly char-acter and personal virtues, and of his rep-utation as a thaumaturgus, coveted hisbones as a powerful medicine, and car-ried them off. In taking them out of thetomb they tore the brittle bark and scat-tered its fragments. The bones being firstplaced on the bottom of the cellar, behindthe tomb, some small fragments becamemixed up with the sand, mortar, andlime, and were left behind. Such seems to me the most natural ex- planation of the circumstances of the dis-covery. Had the missionaries them-selves, before setting fire to the church,removed the remains of their saintlybrother, they would have been carefulabout the least fragment; none of
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