Emmanuel Crespel

Emmanuel Crespel (1703-1775) is a priest, a military chaplain and a French missionary. He played a part in several French military forwardings at the 18th century in America and Europe.

Born with Douai in Flandres, the year 1703, it there made its studies and entered to the Récollets to Avesnes in 1723; it was ordered with Quebec by Mgr of Saint-Vallier, on March 17th 1726. Resident with the convent of Quebec (1726); cleaned of Sorel (1726-1728), with service road of the island Deceived (1726-1727) and of Berthierville (1726-1727);

He was chaplain of a detachment guerroyant against the Outagarnis in the west of the Lake Michigan (1728). He is then resident with the convent of Montreal (1728-1729); chaplain of the Strong the Niagara (1729-1732); resident with the convent of Quebec (1732-1733) and chaplain of the Strong Frontenac in Kingston (1733-1734), of the strong Saint-Frederic on the edge of the Lake Champlain (1735-1730).

It embarks for France and fact shipwreck on the island of Anticosti in 1730, where it winters misérablement on the deserted shore (1736-1737). Again reside at Quebec in 1737; it occupies the functions of priest of the Cèdres (1737-1738); in Douai in Belgium (1738-1740); with Avesnes (1740).

He is military chaplain of the French troops in the Campagne of Austria (1740-1748) and in France (1748-1750). In Quebec, of 1750 to 1775, he is provincial police chief of Récollets of Canada (1750-1753, 1750-1775) and superior of the convent (1753-1756). He is deceased on April 29th, 1775.

References

biographical Dictionary of the clergy Canadian-French, Jean-Baptist-Arthur Allaire, Montreal: Printing works of the Catholic school of deaf-mute, 1908-1934.

Random links: