St. Ignace Mission
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The St. Ignace Mission is located in a municipal park known as Marquette Mission Park. It was the site of a mission established by Jesuit priest, Father Jacques Marquette, and the site of his grave in
Mission in 2009
Monument marking Marquette's burial site
Mission c. 1900
Mission interior c. 1900
Henri Nouvel
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Henri Nouvel was a Jesuit priest who spent forty years as a missionary to Native American communities of New France. Nouvel was the first missionary on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River; and
St. Ignace Mission
…they were placed in a birch box and buried beneath the chapel. After Marquette's death, the mission was taken over by Father Phillip Pierson, and then Father Nouvel. A new chapel was built in approximately 1674, and by 1683 the mission was so successful and prosperous that three priests, Fathers Nicholas Potier…
Monument of the tricentenary of the mass celebrated by Henri Novel at Pointe-au-Pere in 1663