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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.
In 1625 the first company of Jesuits arrived. They were sent out under "the patronage of the Duke de Ventadour, a nobleman of great piety, who was viceroy of the colony, but who gave to Champlain the entire direction of temporal affairs, reserving to himself the charge of promoting the conversion of the Indians to Christianity. Up to 1627 the colony of Quebec, although
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