The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
His symptoms became so serious that often we expected nothing less
than that he would die on our hands. In fact, one evening, his wife
and children deserted him entirely and went to settle elsewhere,
thinking it was all over with him. But it pleased God to prove
their despair unfounded; for a few days afterwards he was in good
health and is so to-day (to God be the glory); which M. Hébert,
of Paris, a well-known master in Pharmacy, who attended the said
patient, often assured me was a genuine miracle. For my part, I
scarcely know what to say; inasmuch as I do not care either to
affirm or deny a thing of which I have no proof. This I do know,
that we put upon the sufferer a bone taken from the precious relics
of the glorified Saint Lawrence, archbishop of Dublin in Ireland,
which M. de la Place, the estimable abbé d'Eu, and the Priors and
Canons of the said abbey d'Eu, kindly gave us for our protection
during the voyage to these lands. So we [54] placed some of these
holy relics upon the sick man, at the same time offering our vows
for him, and then he improved.
Par cet exemple, Membertou, le pere du guery, comme j'ay dict cy
devant, fut fort confirmé en la foy, et à cette cause sentant le mal
dont depuis il est decedé, voulut aussy tost estre apporté icy; et
quoyque nostre cabane soit tant estroitte que trois personnes estant
dedans, à peine s'y peuvent-elles remuer, neantmoins si demanda-t-il
de grande confiance qu'il avoit en nous, d'estre logé dans l'un de nos
deux licts; ce qu'il fut pour six jours. Mais après, sa femme, fille
et brue estans venues, il cogneut bien de luy mesme qu'il falloit
tramarcher; ce qu'il fit, s'excusant fort, et nous demandant pardon du
continuel travail qu'il nous avoit donné jour et nuict en son service.
Certes le changement de lieu et traitement ne lui allegea pas son mal.
Par ainsy, le voyant sur son declin, je le confessay au mieux que je
pus, et luy après (c'est tout leur testament) fit sa harangue. Or en
sa harangue, entre autres choses il dict sa volonté estre d'avoir
sepulture avec ses femmes et enfants, ez-anciens monumens de sa maison.
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