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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.
and for a century and a half, during which the fearful struggle was kept up on this continent between France and England for its dominion, it continued the center of French power in America. In 1615 the first priests reached new France. They were Recollects, four in number, with Father Carron, the Superior of the mission, at their head. In 1620 they were re-inforced by three other priests of the same order, and at this time the first religious seminary in America was founded by them at Quebec.
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