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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.
prayers and ceremonies, and the baptism of a dying infant was sometimes a source of imminent danger. To avoid this they often resorted to stratagem. Father Pigart, being rudely repulsed from a cabin whose inmates refused to have a dying infant baptized, offered to the little sufferer a piece of sugar, and, unperceived, though watched, pressed from a wet cloth a drop of holy water upon its fevered brow. But,
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