Guillaume Vignal

Guillaume Vignal (1604-1661) is a priest and a missionary of Canada.

It arrived at Quebec on September 13rd, 1648 in the capacity as Prieur of the Ursulines. In 1656, he blesses the church of the Congregation of] STotre-Lady of Qaébec. On the pressing invitation of Mr. the Abbot of Queylus, come in 1657, it left the community which it had served during 11 years, and went on a journey in France, then of return to Quebec, on September 7th, 1659, in the vessel, the Saint-Andrew, with Mr. the Abbé LeMaître, it went to Montreal, like member Séminaire of Saint-Sulpice.

It was wounded, on October 25th, 1661, in island-with-the-Pierre, by a party of Iroquois, which, after having led it to Laprairie of the Madeleine, opposite Montreal, killed it, made roast its body on one to rough-hew, and ate it. the Agnerons , writes the mother Marie of the Incarnation, continue their carnage. Mr. Vignal who had been our confessor and with which we had incredible obligations, fell between their hands, and was put at died by these barbarians, with three men of his company .

References

general Repertory of the Canadian clergy, by chronological order since the foundation of the colony until our days, by Mgr Cyprien Tanguay, Montreal: Eusèbe Senécal & wire, printers and publishers, 1893.

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