The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 24: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 24: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791

The Sillery Indians are especially severe on the women who leave their husbands. An instance Of this sort having occurred, they secure permission from Montmagny to build a little prison of their own at Sillery, in which the woman is placed, with an injunction to entreat God to make her more sensible and obedient. Here, in the depth of winter, she is kept twenty-four hours, without fire or blanket, or at first, without other bed than the bare ground; through Father de Quen's intercession she is afterward given a little bread, and some straw to rest on. Toward evening, they judged it proper to release her; it was enough for inspiring terror in this poor creature, and was a little beginning Of government for these new Christians. The punishment sufficed for this young woman, and for several others. Several of the men no longer strike their wives in anger, but gently reprove them, or even patiently endure without reply.

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Excerpt from The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 24: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791

The Relation of 1642-43 (Document LI.) was written wholly by Vimont, the superior - the manuscript for the intended Huron part having been captured by the Iroquois. In Vol. XXIII., we presented the first three chapters; Chapters iv.- xii. are herewith given, and the remaining two chapters will appear in Vol. XXV.

In continuing his account of the Sillery mission, Vimont describes the manner of life of the Indians settled there, and, as usual, relates numerous instances of their piety and zeal. A woman says twice as many prayers for the soul of Father Raymbault as for that of her own daughter, in order that he may be first released from Purgatory, as "his prayers will get her out sooner than mine." A man who speaks contemptuously of the faith is severely disciplined by the Christian Indians. An old woman, who stays at home one feast day, imitates the church ceremonies as closely as she can, and thus "has mass in her own cabin." A young man, tempted to sin, not only resists stoutly, but severely flogs his entire body, by way of penance, for fear lest he have erred; and, in deep distress, he begs the Fathers to punish him to the utmost. These Christian Indians also are doing much, by words and by example, for the conversion of their neighbors, the Attikamegues.

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