[PDF] Father Marquette eBook

Author : August Derleth
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898706642

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This Vision book for youth 9 - 15 years old tells the thrilling story of one of America's greatest missionaries who came down from Canada with explorer Louis Joliet to explore the mighty Mississippi River, the "great river" bordered by Indian tribes who killed white men on sight. Of the few who had dared explore this immense waterway, none had lived to return and report where it emptied. If he could travel to the mouth of the "great river," Fr. Marquette hoped to obtain new lands for France and new souls for Jesus Christ. He braved the dangers of tomahawks and tortures to bring the Word of God to the Indians of the New World. Rapids, floods, Indian superstitions, tribal warfare - these are only a few of the obstacles Father Marquette and Louis Joliet encountered in trying to meet their challenge. Illustrated.

Author : Susan Sales Harkins
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1612288030

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European explorers searched in vain for a northwest waterway through the North American continent. French traders living in the northeast heard of a great river that the natives called Messi-Sipi to the west. Was this river the Northwest Passage? Or was the Messi-Sipi really the Rio Grande, the river that Hernando de Soto had discovered a century earlier? That’s what Father Jacques Marquette and his companion explorer Louis Jolliet hoped to discover in 1673. It’s hard to imagine a more unlikely explorer and hero than Father Jacques Marquette, yet his gentle and compassionate nature made him the perfect ambassador to the friendly native peoples they met along the banks of the great Mississippi River.

Author : Charles H. L. Johnston
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Many, many years ago, when the Indian tribes inhabited the wilderness of North America, a good priest came among them to teach them the ways of Christ. He was a Frenchman called Père, or Father Marquette, and he had been born at Laon, France, June 1st., 1627.

Author : Laura M. Chmielewski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 131760105X

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In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers – Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a fur trapper – reveal the diverse world of early America. Following the explorers' epic journey through the center of the American continent, Marquette and Jolliet combines a story of discovery and encounter with the insights derived from recent historical scholarship. The story provides perspective on the different methods and goals of colonization and the role of Native Americans as active participants in this complex and uneven process.

Author : Joseph P. Donnelly
Publisher : Chicago : Loyola University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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This biorgraphy is the result of careful investigation into every phase of Father Marquette's brief life, a few days short of thirty-eight years, 1637-1675. The reader may learn here for the first time the accurate details of Marquette's ancestry, his education, the early years of his Jesuit education in France, and the carefully documented history of his missionary career in New France.

Author : Susan Sales Harkins
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1545749892

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A short biography of the French missionary who explored the northern extreme of the Mississippi River to see if it was the Northwest Passage