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A missionary, Pedro de Gante, wanted to spread the Christian faith to his native brothers and sisters. During this time, the mentality of the Spanish people proscribed empowering the indigenous people with knowledge, because they believed that would motivate them to retaliate against the Spanish rulers.
The Jesuit provinces were first organized into an "assistancy" (a regional grouping of provinces), [16] called the Jesuit Conference of the United States, in 1972. [17] A new, consolidated assistancy was created in 2014, called the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, under which all the provinces in the two countries are ...
The Jesuit mission at Detroit was moved to Bois Blanc Island in 1742. The mission was later reestablished in the vicinity of present-day Windsor , closer to the defences at Detroit. The Huron mission served both native and European residents, with the arrival of French settlers in the area.
Basilica of Sainte Anne de Détroit (French: Basilique Sainte-Anne de Détroit) is located at 1000 St. Anne Street in Detroit, Michigan and serves the needs of Ste. Anne Parish. The parish founded by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and 100 French colonists of New France on July 26, 1701, [ 1 ] is recognized as the second-oldest continuously ...
[citation needed] Floridian Jesuit Missionary Father Juan Rogel wrote an account to his superior Francis Borgia, dated August 28, 1572. [15] That month, Floridian Governor Pedro Menéndez de Avilés arrived with armed forces from Florida to avenge the massacre of the Spanish and hoping to capture Don Luis. [16]
Father Marquette National Memorial pays tribute to the life and work of Jacques Marquette, French priest and explorer. The memorial is located in Straits State Park near St. Ignace in the modern-day U.S. state of Michigan, where he founded a Jesuit mission in 1671 and was buried in 1678.
Cipriano Barace, Spanish missionary and martyr; Ignacio Martín-Baró, martyr in El Salvador; Pedro Barreto, Peruvian cardinal proclaimed by Pope Francis in 2018. Augustin Barruel, French writer; Florian Baucke, Silesian and Bohemian Jesuit missionary to South America; Michel Baudouin, Superior-General of the Louisiana Mission (1749-1763)
Louis Hennepin, OFM (born Antoine Hennepin; French pronunciation: [lwi ɛnpɛ̃]; 12 May 1626 – 5 December 1704) was a Belgian Catholic priest and missionary best known for his activities in North America. A member of the Recollects, a minor branch of the Franciscans, he travelled to New France and proselytised to several Native American tribes.