The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 4: Acadia and Quebec, 1616-1629
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 4: Acadia and Quebec, 1616-1629
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
OR pendant ce sejour toute [296 i.e., 298] sorte de gens les alloient
voir, & de bien loin, par curiosité de voir des Iesuites en leur habit,
ainsi qu'ils estoient, & ont tousiours esté iusques à leur retour
en Frãce. Ministres, Iusticiers, Gentilshommes, & autres venoyent
conferer auec eux; Vn Milord mesmes du grãd Conseil voulut auoir le
plaisir de les accarer en dispute rangée auec quatre Ministres. Ie
dy Ministres pour m'accommoder à l'intelligence Françoise: car en
Angleterre ils les appellent Prestres: Et le Chef de la dispute estoit
vn Archidiacre, parce que les Anglois retiennent encores beaucoup de
l'Eglise Catholique, comme l'Ordre de la Hierarchie Ecclesiastique,
Archeuesques, Euesques, Prestres, Archiprestres, Archidiacres, Curez,
Chanoines, &c. L'imposition Episcopale des mains en la creation des
Prestres, [297 i.e., 299] & moindres Ordres, & en la confirmatiõ des
enfans, Le Cresme, & les ceremonies, le signe de la Croix, & l'Image
d'icelle, & d'autres: La Psalmodie, & culte ordinaire, les festes
ordonnées des Saincts, & Sainctes, les Vigiles, les Ieusnes, le
Caresme, l'Abstinence des viandes au Vendredy, & Samedy, les habits
Sacerdotaux, & vaisseaux sacrez: Et ceux qui condamnent toutes ces
choses, comme font les Caluinistes de France & d'Escosse, & les
appellent superstitions damnables, & inuentions de l'Antechrist, sont
nommez des Anglois, Puritains, & les detestent comme pestes execrables.
NOW during this sojourn [296 i.e., 298] all kinds of people went
to see them, and some from a great distance, through curiosity to
see Jesuits dressed in their robes, as they were then and always
have been until their return to France. Ministers, Justices,
Gentlemen, and others came to confer with them; even a Lord of
the great Council wished to have the pleasure of pitting four
Ministers against them in debate. I say Ministers, to make myself
intelligible to the French, for in England they call them Priests.
And the Chief one in the debate was an Archdeacon, for the English
still have a great many things in common with the Catholic Church,
as the Order of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, Archbishops, Bishops,
Priests, Archpriests, Archdeacons, Curates, Canons, etc.; the
Episcopal laying on of hands in the ordination of Priests, [297
i.e., 299] and lesser Orders, and in the confirmation of children;
the Chrism and its ceremonies, the sign of the Cross, the Image of
this and of other things; the Psalmody and usual form of worship,
the prescribed Saints' days, the Vigils, Fasts, Lent, Abstinence
from meat on Friday and Saturday; Priestly robes, and consecrated
vessels. And those who condemn all these things, as the Calvinists
of France and of Scotland do, and call them damnable superstitions,
and inventions of the Antichrist, are by the English called
Puritans, and are detested by them as abominable plagues.
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