Claude jean allouez biography of barack obama

Claude Jean Allouez, SJ (June 6, 1622 – August 28, 1689) was a Jesuit missionary and French explorer of North America.^[1] He established a number of missions among the indigenous people living near Lake Superior.

Biography

Allouez was born in Saint-Didier-en-Velay in the département of Haute-Loire in south-central France.

Claude jean allouez biography of barack obama

In 1639, he graduated from the College of Le Puy, and became a Jesuit novice in Toulouse, France. In 1655, he was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Allouez arrived in Quebec in 1658 and immediately began a study of the Wyandot and Anishinaabe languages to prepare himself for work as a missionary among the American Indian tribes along the St.

Lawrence River.^[2]

In 1660 he became the superior of the mission at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. His stay there lasted until 1663 when he was named vicar general of a part of the diocese of Quebec that is now the central region of the United States.

This appointment