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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.
laborers. Quickly 'he moved, promptly he acted. In two days after his arrival he was on his way back to the beautiful northern field, with an additional priest and a lay brother in his company.
He remained at La Pointe until Father Marquette took his place, in the fall of 1679, when he founded the mission of St. Francis Xavier at Green Bay. After Father Marquette's death, he succeeded him in the Illinois mission, and afterwards founded the mission of St. Joseph, on our own beautiful
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