Jacques Buteux

Jacques Buteux (1600-1652) is known Canadian Jesuit to have évangélisé the area of the Three-Rivers.

Born in April 1600 â Abbeville, in Picardy, it entered, on October 2nd, 1620, in the Society of Jesus, with Rouen. Arrived at Quebec on June 24th, 1634, it was of continuation charged to go, with the Père the Young person, to found the mission of the Three-Rivers. He visited the station of Tadoussac, of 1644 to 1647.

During eighteen years, it was occupied to convert the Montagnais and the Algonquins. Endowed with a very particular grace, it could touch the hearts of these wild poor and inspire the feelings of piety to them. As of the year 1641, some savages of the nations of the Atticamègues or Poisson Blancs, descended to the residence from the Three-Rivers had been made inform, and had embraced the faith with a great enthusiasm. April 4th, 1651, the Buteux father left to go to serve the mission of in the middle of this tribute, located at the north of the Three-Rivers.

He wrote, his departure day before, with the Père Ragueneau. " My R. Père, said to him it, it is with this blow which it should be hoped for that we will leave. God wants that these resolutions are firm, and that finally we leave good once, and that the sky is the term of our voyage. Bag spes reposita is in sinu meo. I leave accompanied by my miseries, I have great need for prayers. The heart says to me that the time of my happiness approaches. Dominus is, quod bonum is in oculis suisfaciat."

The father was accompanied by young French and a young Huron Christian. May 10th, 1652, they were all three surprised by a troop of Iroquois, which seized the Huron young person, and made fire on his/her two companions. The Buteux father fell struck from two balls to the chest, and these barbarians, being thrown on him, struck it to blows of axe. His/her companion had the same fate, and both expired by pronouncing the saint name of Jesus. Their stripped bodies were thrown in the Rivière Saint-Maurice.

A school is named in its honor with Three-Rivers

Since the summer a 2007 section of the national path bears the name of Jacques-Buteux. It connects the road halt of road 155 of Large-Piles to road 159. The section makes 12.9 km.

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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