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 . he mission. Chastity wasnot rated high,—as Judge Brown re-marks. Natural child, by savagemothers, or of anunknown father isa frequent descrip-t i V e qualificationused by the record-ing missionary. Dis-heartening as thiscondition must havebeen to the mission-aries, they laboredhopefully combattingsteadfastly this dis-soluteness of not without tell-in
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 . he mission. Chastity wasnot rated high,—as Judge Brown re-marks. Natural child, by savagemothers, or of anunknown father isa frequent descrip-t i V e qualificationused by the record-ing missionary. Dis-heartening as thiscondition must havebeen to the mission-aries, they laboredhopefully combattingsteadfastly this dis-soluteness of not without tell-ing effect. This rec-ord, from the first tothe last page, marksthe gradual improve-ment something likea childs penmanshipbook. The peoplewere so thoroughlyinstructed in the na-ture of marriage andthe necessity of thesacrament of bap-tism, that even in theabsence of a mission-ary they privatelychristened their chil-dren, and solemnizedcivil marriages be- TSCH-PIEKAR, DIOCESE . ED BY BISHOP MRAK, forc witucsscs anclsome local authority,even the commander of the fort. Both suchevents were carefully placed on churchrecords, to be afterwards, at the first vis-it of the missionary, solemnized accord- SAULT STE. MARIE AXD MARQUETTE 117. THE INVESTITURE OF MSGR. LANGNER. 118 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF ing to the rites of the Church. This is sowell demonstrated, as we have observedin our relation of Mackinac Island, thatin most of the baptisms the missionarysupplied the ceremony or baptized un-der the condition. And of a civil mar-riage contract we have the finest speci-men, which, to quote Judge Brown, itcould hardly have been better expressedhad it been drawn bv a doctor of the Sor-
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