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 . ST. Pauls school and convent of st. Joseph sisters at,nbgaunee. September 27th, 1712, registers the bap-tism of Daniel Villeneuve. This abridge-ment gives only date of baptism,name ofthe baptized, and of the parents, but doesnot mention the priest who conferred thesacrament and for that reason it losesall historic value. The first entry, con-temporaneous with t
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 . ST. Pauls school and convent of st. Joseph sisters at,nbgaunee. September 27th, 1712, registers the bap-tism of Daniel Villeneuve. This abridge-ment gives only date of baptism,name ofthe baptized, and of the parents, but doesnot mention the priest who conferred thesacrament and for that reason it losesall historic value. The first entry, con-temporaneous with the register, is thebaptism of one Louis Joseph Chaboyer,on October 4, 1741, by Jean Baptiste La-morinie, a missionary of the Society ofTesus. 116 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF On the reverse side of the book are re-corded marriages. Of these also anabridgement is made, the last being onAugust 30, 1741 ; it terminates with the. RT. REV. MSGR. CHARLES LANGNER, BORN AT UEUOF BRESLAU, GERMANY, JUNE 28, 1843, ORDAINJULY 23, 1S69. remark: Suit Ic Rcgistre drs nnnvcauxMackinac. From these registers we glean interest-ing facts about the character of the set- tlers, Indian and white, who made up thepopulation of the 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 b
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