"The prophetic words of the father superior of the Jesuits in 1647 stir the heart of the Christian--by whatsoever name known among men--like the blasts of a trumpet: 'We shall die; we shall be captured, burned, butchered. Be it so. Those who die in their beds do not always die the best death. I see none of our Company cast down.' And truly, in spite of failures, these men did a great work. Seeds of divine truth they sowed broadcast over the wilderness. Gradually they tempered the ferocity of the Indian character, and mitigated the horrors of Indian war. They induced the remnants of many tribes to settle under the shadow of their missions protected by forts. Portions even of the terrible Iroquois settled in Canada and the church has, on the whole, no children more obedient, and Queen Victoria certainly no subjects more loyal."--(Scribner's Magazine, quoted in Canadian Antiquarian and Numismatic Journal, 1879.)
[76] He discovered the salt springs at Onondaga (Syracuse).
[77] Paul le Jeune in 1632 wrote the first letter of the Relations of the Jesuits.
MAISONNEUVE GOES TO FRANCE--ARRANGES FOR HOSPITALIERES AND SULPICIANS--BISHOPRIC FOR NEW FRANCE--THE NOMINATIONS OF DE QUEYLUS AND LAVAL--THE APPOINTMENT DELAYED--THE DEATH OF M. OLIER--THE ARRIVAL OF DE QUEYLUS AND MAISONNEUVE AT QUEBEC--TWO RIVAL "GRANDS VICAIRES"--DE QUEYLUS GOES TO MONTREAL AND QUICKLY RETURNS TO RULE THE CHURCH IN QUEBEC--THE INTRUSION RESENTED--THE SULPICIANS IN MONTREAL--TRIBUTE TO THEM AS CIVIC AND RELIGIOUS ADMINISTRATORS--IROQUOIS HOSTILITIES RESUMED--THE HEAD OF JEAN ST. PERE--THE CHURCH IN MONTREAL TAKES ON "PARISH" PRETENSIONS--CHURCH WARDENS AND "LA FABRIQUE"--THE FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE--THE FLIGHT TO MONTREAL FROM ONONDAGA--PRECAUTIONARY ORDINANCES BY MAISONNEUVE--FORTIFIED REDOUBTS--THE ECCLESIASTICAL DISPUTE SETTLED--DE QUEN "GRAND VICAIRE" OF QUEBEC, DE QUEYLUS OF MONTREAL--BON SECOURS CHURCH DELAYED--JEANNE MANCE AND MARGUERITE BOURGEOYS VISIT FRANCE.
In the autumn of 1655, profiting by the peace concluded, and seeing the progress of the town well under way, the governor left Montreal under the charge of Lambert Closse, and sailed for France. His object was threefold (1) to promote the erection of an episcopal seat in Canada; (2) to secure, as originally arranged, permanent parish priests for Montreal from M. Olier's Seminary of St. Sulpice, since the Jesuits, being missionaries, desired their men to be ready to visit the far-off tribes; and (3) to bring back the sisters of the Institute of Hospitalières, erected lately by M. de la Dauversière, in view of the service of the Hôtel-Dieu.