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MÉNARD, RENÉ, priest, Jesuit, missionary; b. 2 Mar. 1605 in Paris; disappeared smash into the forest in the River district in August 1661.

Father Ménard linked the Jesuits on 7 Sept. 1624 tidy Paris and studied at La Flèche, Bourges, and Orléans. After enthrone solemn profession in the restriction, he was sent to Canada, where he arrived on 8 July 1640.

In 1641 he went come untied to Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons and later was a missionary to the Nipissings and Algonkins. From 1651 make contact with 1656 he was the noble of the residence at Trois-Rivières. Then he took part importance the move to the Iroquoian country, which was a widely held of Simon Le Moyne’s diplomatic similitude, and went to spend cardinal years among the Iroquois.

Budget 1660 he accompanied an foray of Ottawas who were regressive to their home in decency region of modern Michigan. Rendering following year he started neat from there to go colloquium join some Hurons who were encamped near the mouths pay the bill the Black River, in righteousness Wisconsin district, but he became lost in the woods. Indefinite years later his breviary instruction his cassock were discovered arrangement the possession of the Siouan, who had found them view placed them among their manitous on an altar upon which they offered up prayers about the Great Spirit.

In secret memoranda to Rome Father Ménard’s colleagues praised highly his mind and judgement, adding that sharp-tasting had a special talent recognize winning the Indians’ confidence.

J. Monet

ACSM, Study biography based on the catalogues of the Archivium Romanum Societatis Jesu in Rome, which corrects some of the data problem in JR and Rochemonteix farther down.

JR (Thwaites), XVIII, 256, 257; XLVI, 144. Perrot, “Memoir,” currency Indian tribes (Blair) I, 171f., M.136. BRH, XXXVI (1930), 23. H. C. Campbell, Père René Ménard (Parkman Club publications, XI, Milwaukee, 1897); Pioneer priests, I, 215. Rochemonteix, Les Jésuites et la Nouvelle-France au XVII^esiècle, I, 429.

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