Paul the Young person

Paul the Young person (1594 - 1664) was a French Jesuit and missionary who was one of the first to describe the Canada in the Relations of the Jesuits.

It started from Honfleur with the father Anne of Valley, and arrived at Quebec on July 5th, 1632. In little time, it acquired a so perfect knowledge of the language montagnaise, which it could write, as a savage, a catechism for his neophytes. In 1634, it establishes a residence with the Three-Rivers. It is him which, in 1635, made the funeral oration of Mr. of Champlain.

After having filled the load of superior until 1639, he worked ten more years among the savages. October 30th, 1649, it passed by again in France, where it fills the load of prosecutor of the foreign missions. He died in Paris in the year 1661. The father the Young person wrote eight volumes of the Relations of 1632 to 1639.

References

  • general Repertory of the Canadian clergy, by chronological order since the foundation of the colony until our days, by Mgr Cyprien Tanguay, Montreal: Eusèbe Senécal & wire, printers and publishers, 1893.

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