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 . GRAND MAR.\IS CHURCH AND RECTORY. consideration, at the colonial office andwith the home government, when, inT698, the death of Comte de Frontenac oc-curred. He was succeeded by Louis Hec-tor de Callieres. Pere Carheil did notlose time in sending to the new governora memorial of thirteen articles, settingforth their grievances, with the humblerequest to have th
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 . GRAND MAR.\IS CHURCH AND RECTORY. consideration, at the colonial office andwith the home government, when, inT698, the death of Comte de Frontenac oc-curred. He was succeeded by Louis Hec-tor de Callieres. Pere Carheil did notlose time in sending to the new governora memorial of thirteen articles, settingforth their grievances, with the humblerequest to have them forwarded to theCourt. In 1701 Cadillac obtained per-mission to establish the fort at Detroit;seemingly, he had won out over his Jesuitopponent at Michilimackinac. Learning 94 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF from this fact, and a direct communica-tion from the governor that his memorialhad never been sent to France, FatherCarheil proceeded to make his positionclear in the following, scathing letter:At Michilimakina,the 30th of august, , Could I have Believed that my goingdown below would have been of any great-. REV. p. GIRaRD, born in FRANCE, AUGUST 15,1S44, ORDAINED AT POITIERS BY CARD. PIE,DECEMBER 26, 1867. er use to you than have been all the let-ters that I have Written to you continu-ally, during fifteen Entire years,—for thepurpose of informing you exactly, as inGods sight, according to Truth, accord-ing to my Conscience, of all That was ab-solutely necessary for the advancement ofour missions and for the welfare of theColony,—I would not have failed to go down; and I would have made it my dutyto go to explain to you verbally what Imight not have sufficiently made knownin my letters. But, as I have omittednothing that I Considered myself obligedto let you Know, and as I do not see whatcould have been added to so many letters,I am fully Convinced that my going downcould only have been useless to you, afterall the Information that has been con-veyed to yo
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