The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 7: Quebec, Hurons, Cape Breton, 1634-1635
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The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 7: Quebec, Hurons, Cape Breton, 1634-1635
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
On the eighth of the same month, November, Monsieur Gissart[8]
baptized a little savage child, aged about six months, believing
him so near death that we could not be summoned; yet he lived on
for some time. His wife nursed this poor little child, and cared
for it as if it had been her own. One night, awakening full of
astonishment and joy, she said to her husband that she believed
this little Angel had gone to [32] Heaven; "No," he replied, "I
have just now been to see it, and it still lives." "I beg you,"
she answered, "to go and look again; I cannot believe that it is
not dead, as I have just seen in my sleep a great troop of Angels
coming to take it." So they went to see it again, and found that
it had passed away. They were very glad that they had helped send
to Heaven a soul that will bless God throughout all eternity. On
the sixth day of January of this year, one thousand six hundred and
thirty-five, Father Lallemant applied the waters of holy Baptism to
a little girl about nine or ten years of age, who is being reared
in the house of a French family. This child had some one ask the
Father to admit her into the Church; he examined her in regard
to her belief, and, seeing her sufficiently instructed, knowing
besides that she [33] had no relatives who could take her from the
hands of our French people, he made a present of her to the little
Jesus on Epiphany; she has continued to do well since then, fleeing
from the Savages, so that she cannot be induced to speak to them.
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