Claude jean allouez biography of albert

It is estimated that in the course of his 24 years of missionary apostolate, he personally baptized some 10, neophytes. The Relations for the years to have preserved for us considerable extracts from his diary. One document however has been attributed to him which is not entirely from his hand. Claude Allouez. The latter attributed them to Father Allouez and this attribution has persisted until the present.

Claude jean allouez biography of albert

A careful study, however, allows us to question the attribution to Father Allouez of this work in its entirety. Father Allouez had copied this document in his own hand, as it was important for its spiritual and apostolic value; and he thus had as his model to the very end of his life the portrait of the ideal missionary. Father Dablon can be forgiven for not having had a clear memory in of these texts from the Relation for But his mistake of attribution is the finest tribute he could pay to Father Allouez: that of having been the living confirmation of the essential characteristics of the perfect missionary.

From to he traveled the Great Lakes region in all directions—Huron, Superior, Erie, Michigan—covering 3, miles, preaching to more than 20 native tribes, and, it is said, baptizing about 10, persons. In he went to Lake Nipigon and celebrated the first Mass to be offered within the boundaries of the present Diocese of Fort-William, Ontario. He worked among the Illinois, prepared a prayer book in Illinois and French, laid the foundations for St.

In he permanently established at Kaskaskia, Ill. His last field of labor was among the Miamis on St. Joseph's River, where he died in In he visited the village of the Nipissing Indians who had fled there during the Iroquois onslaught of and celebrated the first mass beside the Nipigon River May 29, He went back to Quebec in search of assistants, and immediately returned to the missions.

The Menominee began participating in the fur trade network and converting to Christianity. Mark's Mission, and founding the mission of St.