The children now profited by the examples of their parents, and amused themselves by placing live coals and red-hot ashes on the naked bodies of the
Parkman Vol. 2 Chapter 16
In the early morning of the second of August, 1642, twelve Huron canoes were moving slowly along the northern shore of the expansion of the St.
Montreal Founded
On the following day, they glided along the green and solitary shores now thronged with the life of a busy city, and landed on the spot which
Montreal Consecrated at Notre Dame in Paris
Henceforth it was to be called Villemarie de Montreal, [8] -- a sacred town, reared to the honor and under the patronage of Christ, St. Joseph, and
Parkman Vol. 2 Chapter 15
One day, while at his devotions, he heard an inward voice commanding him to become to establish, on the island called Montreal, in Canada, a
The Ursuline Nuns
It was three years later before the Ursulines and their pupils took possession of a massive convent of stone, built for them on the site which they
Marie de l’Incarnation
She aspired to that inner circle of the faithful, that aristocracy of devotion, which, while the common herd of Christians are busied with the duties
Parkman Vol. 2 Chapter 14
A betrothal took place; all was harmony, and for a time no more was said of disinheriting Madame de la Peltrie, or putting her in
Life in Quebec
Yet, on the whole, the labors of the missionaries tended greatly to the benefit of the Indians.Previously in The Jesuits in North America in the