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 . still held their fullform and outline, but broke up into smallpieces, when picked up. The bottombark was cemented into place by mortar,which was still intact—all this is in ac-cordance with how Marquette had beenburied, and Father Jacker, and thoseworking with him, decided that they hadfound all that had not turned to dust ofthe Missionary. Darkness was comingo
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 . still held their fullform and outline, but broke up into smallpieces, when picked up. The bottombark was cemented into place by mortar,which was still intact—all this is in ac-cordance with how Marquette had beenburied, and Father Jacker, and thoseworking with him, decided that they hadfound all that had not turned to dust ofthe Missionary. Darkness was comingon, work was concluded, Father Jackertaking charge of what had been next day Joseph Marley, diggingaround in the west end of the cellar,where it had caved in on the previousevening, found more pieces of bones froma human frame, including pieces of skull-bone. These were taken to Father Jack-er and kept with the rest. The bones found were disposed of by sending partof them to Marquette College, in Milwau-kee, and placing the balance in a vault un-der a monument erected by the people ofthe town, in 1882, on the spot where thebones were found. There exists no doubt in the mind ofan\-one who lived here at the time of the. REV. ALEXANDER HASENBERG, BORN AT COLOGNE-POLL, MAY II, 1S71, ORDAINED THERE JULY l8,1S9S, BY BISHOP VERTIN. discovering of the site, that the variousproofs as they came to light demonstratedthat here was the resting place of thegreat missionary and explorer. The old-est Indian in the country, Joseph Nis-atayp. comes to pray at the grave, and Itliink, because of the knowledge that ex-ists with his people that, as they put it. 130 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF a great Bishop was buried on this spot,and not because of the finding of an un-known grave. Tiie land on which the Mission chapelstood is one of the old French claims andin the possession of the Murrays since1857, coming to them through purchase,from Talbot Dousman—coming to Tal-bot Dousman from Mich
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