Father Marquette : Jesuit Missionary And Explorer, the Discoverer of the Mississippi. His Place of Burial At St. Ignace, Michigan
Father Marquette : Jesuit Missionary And Explorer, the Discoverer of the Mississippi. His Place of Burial At St. Ignace, Michigan
Hedges, Samuel, 1854-1916
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First and most glorious among them will be Jacques Marquette, Indian missionary. The month of October was late to start on a canoe trip that would take him so far as he intended to go. None knew this better than Marquette — ^yet, his zeal urged him forth. He reached the Chicago River, which was frozen over and deep with ice, and here he was forced to spend the winter, stricken with the sickness that was at last to bring to him the Angel of Death. He arrived at the river, December 4th, hav- ing ...left Mission St. FranQois at De Pere in October. The following March he began the mission work. It is on record, how he labored, go- 73 Digitized by Google FATHER MARQUETTE. ing here and there among the Indians ; his gentle manners, his holy life, his eloquent words winning him the affec- tion and esteem of the rude people to whom he ministered. Realizing that death was upon him, he turns reluct- antly northward again. Through the maze of river and lake, over portage, and hy new and strange routes they sought the lake — Marquette and his companions.
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