Father rene menard biography
Biography – MÉNARD, RENÉ – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary ...
- René Ménard (2 March – 4 July ?) was a French Jesuit missionary explorer who traveled to New France in , learned the language of the Wyandot, and was soon in charge of many of the satellite missions around Sainte-Marie among the Hurons.
Menard, Fr. Rene, 1605-1661 | Wisconsin Historical Society
Rene Menard | Catholic Answers Encyclopedia
MÉNARD, RENÉ, priest, Jesuit, missionary; b. 2 Mar. 1605 in Paris; disappeared into the forest in the Wisconsin district in August 1661.
Father Ménard joined the Jesuits on 7 Sept. 1624 in Paris and studied at La Flèche, Bourges, and Orléans. After his solemn profession in the order, he was sent to Canada, where he arrived on 8 July 1640. In 1641 he went off to Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons and later was a missionary to the Nipissings and Algonkins. From 1651 to 1656 he was the superior of the residence at Trois-Rivières. Then he took part in the move to the Onondaga country, which was a consequence of Simon Le Moyne’s diplomatic mission, and went to spend two years among the Iroquois. In 1660 he accompanied an expedition of Ottawas who were returning to their home in the region of modern Michigan. The following year he started out from there to go to join some Hurons who were encamped near the mouths of the Black River, in the Wisconsin d
René Ménard - The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Father Ménard joined the Jesuits on 7 Sept.
| René Ménard (2 March 1605 – 4 July 1661?) was a French Jesuit missionary explorer who traveled to New France in 1641, learned the language of the Wyandot, and was soon in charge of many of the satellite missions around Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. | |
| Father Schmirler was trying to discover the exact location where Father Rene Menard died while trying to reach refugee Indians on the headquarters of the Black River in the summer of 1661. | |
| Ménard, René, priest, Jesuit, missionary; b. |
COUTURE (Cousture), GUILLAUME (d. 1701) – Dictionary of ...
- Priest, missionary, composer, b Paris 2 Mar , d Wisconsin, August He joined the Jesuits in , was ordained, and was sent to Canada in He went on numerous missionary expeditions to the Nipissings, Algonquins, Iroquois, and Hurons and succeeded in winning their confidence.
North Wisconsin in history and romance - no. 6--Father Rene ...
- first missionary to reach Wisconsin; when Iroquois attacks drove his small flock of converts 1, miles west, he followed after them in ; wintering on Keweenaw Bay, he set out in the spring for a village of exiled Hurons near the headwaters of the Black River northwest of modern Wausua, hiking overland across the Upper Penninsula of Michiga.
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