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 . 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 o
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 . 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 Michael Dousman in1855, to Michael Dousman from FrancisLa Pointe in 1828. Francis La Pointe. THE CHURCH OF NATIVITY, MICHIGAMME, MICH had held it as squatters claim prior to is-sue of patent b} the U. S. Government in1830. The chapel site was deeded to theJesuit College in Detroit, in 1885 in or-der that the grave of Marquette might becontrolled by the Order of which he wasa member. In 1889, the city of St. Ignacepurchased two lots adjoining the site andturned it into Marquette Park, which iskept up by the city. The old paintingwhich is in the present church, has thetradition back of it, of having been here in an Lidian family from the time theold mission was abandoned until 1834,when the present church was built. Thereis also a tradition or the statement of anold Indian woman, who died a few yearsago, that in her childhood, a large crosshad stood where the old mission site wasfound. The old chalice, in the church, I knownothing of, except that it is very old andhas always, as far as any p
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