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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.
Marquette was born in 1637, and was of gentle blood, being descended from the most notable family in the small, but ancient and stately, city of Leon, in the north of France. The family have for centuries been eminent for devotion to military life, and three of its members shed their blood upon our own soil during the war of the Revolution.
Through the instructions of a pious mother, he became at an early age imbued with an earnest desire to devote himself to a religious life. At the age of seventeen he renounced the
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