The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century . e hospital wouldhave no patients. Therefore, in order to supplythem, the island must first be colonized. Dau-versiere was greatly perplexed. On the one hand,the voice of Heaven must be obeyed; on the other, hehad a wife, six children, and a very moderate fortune.^Again: there was at Paris a young priest, abouttwenty-eight years of age, — Jean Jacques Olier,afterwards widely known as founder of the Seminaryof St. Sulpice. Judged by his engraved portrait, hiscountenance, though marked both with energy andintellect, was anything but prepos
The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century . e hospital wouldhave no patients. Therefore, in order to supplythem, the island must first be colonized. Dau-versiere was greatly perplexed. On the one hand,the voice of Heaven must be obeyed; on the other, hehad a wife, six children, and a very moderate fortune.^Again: there was at Paris a young priest, abouttwenty-eight years of age, — Jean Jacques Olier,afterwards widely known as founder of the Seminaryof St. Sulpice. Judged by his engraved portrait, hiscountenance, though marked both with energy andintellect, was anything but prepossessing. Everylineament proclaims the priest. Yet the Abbd Olierhas high titles to esteem. He signalized his piety,it is true, by the most disgusting exploits of self-mortification; but, at the same time, he was strenu- 1 Fancamp in Faillon, Vie de ili« Mance, Introduction. ^ Faillon, Vie de 3P^ Mance Introduction; Dollier de Casson,nist. de Montreal, MS.; Les Veritables Motifs des Messieurs et Damesde Montreal, 25; Juchereau, 33. Jean Jacques 1636.] VISIONS.—PRODIGIES. 5 ous in his efforts to reform the people and the zealous was he for good morals, that he diew uponhimself the imputation of a leaning to the heresy ofthe Jansenists, — a suspicion strengthened by hisopposition to certain priests, who, to secure the faith-ful in their allegiance, justified them in lives oflicentiousness.^ Yet Oliers catholicity was pastattaintment, and in his horror of Jansenists heyielded to the Jesuits alone. He was praying in the ancient church of St. Ger-main des Prds, when, like Dauversiere, he thoughthe heard a voice from Heaven, saying that he wasdestined to be a light to the Gentiles. It is recordedas a mystic coincidence attending this miracle, thatthe choir was at that very time chanting the words,Lumen ad revelationem Gentium;^ and it seems tohave occurred neither to Olier nor to his biographer,that, falling on the ear of the rapt worshipper, theymight have un
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