Jacques Inlays
The father Jacques Marquette (born on June 1st 1637 with Laon, Aisne - died the May 18th 1675, in forest) was a Explorateur and missionary Jésuite French, discoverer of the the Mississippi with Louis Jolliet.
Biography
Born with Laon on June 10th 1637, Jacques Marquette is the sixth child of Nicolas Marquette of Tombelle, elected adviser of Laon and Rose of the Room. Its very pious family wakes up in him a vocation Apostolique. After his studies in the schools laonnoises, Jacques Inlays between at seventeen years in the Society of Jesus. Less than one year after having finished its studies, it is ordered priest at twenty-nine years and solicits to be sent on mission " AD will exteras nationes".
Jacques Marquette embarks with La Rochelle at the beginning of the month of June 1666 and arrives at Quebec on September 20th. He spends one year to Three-Rivers to be studied montagnais it and other Indian languages, in 1673 he will usually speak a half-dozen about it. In 1668, it joined the Father Claude Dablon with the Sault-Holy-Marie, mission on which approximately 2.000 Algonquin S. In 1669 depend, it founds a mission with the Point of the Holy Spirit and in the current of the summer 1671, the mission Saint-Ignace bases on the strait of Mackinac.
The July 2nd 1671, it pronounces its perpetual wishes in the Sault-Co.-Marie.
It is in St-Ignace that, the December 8th 1672, it receives Louis Jolliet, charged by the new governor with News-France Louis de Frontenac with going to explore the valley of the the Mississippi to the research of the direct passage towards the Pacific Ocean. They take all the winter to prepare their great voyage. They question wandering Indians, outline charts of the country. Towards mid-May, they get under way on board two boats accompanied by five other French. Forwarding crosses the Lake Michigan, goes up the river with the Foxes and enters an unknown country to Europeans. There, they decide to take the way of the return because of the presence of the Spaniards in the territories of which they approach. They separate at the end of September 1673 having noted that the Mississippi runs unrelentingly towards the south and not towards the west as it was hoped for.
The discovery of the Mississippi consolidated Jacques Marquette in his desire to extend towards the west and the south of the continent the missionary influence. In the month of October 1674, it leaves bay of Puants to go to found a mission at the Illinois that Jolliet and are to him the first Europeans to have visited. In December, its health condition obliges it to stop with the height of Chicago from where it sets out again on March 30th 1675. April 8th, it stops in a village where it founds the mission of the immaculate Design of the Holy-Virgin. Jacques Marquette is deceased the May 18th 1675 " in the middle of the forests" , close to the current town of Ludington, with the Michigan. It was 38 years old. One year later, its remainders were exhumed and transported to the Saint-Ignace mission.
Famous a American university bears its name. Just as in its memory, a lake and a river of the area of the Big lakes were called Père Inlays . Lastly, the college of mainstream education of Pont-à-Mousson also bears its name.
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