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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marquette
		To avoid further long journeys, the well-experienced missionary Father Claude Dablon was appointed superior of the western missions.
		This chapel was built on the St. Ignace side where Father Marquette took up his residence in the summer of 1671, and remained in charge of the Indian tribes there until 17 May, 1673.
		Father Marest was the first to return and take up his quarters in the old mission.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09689a.htm (1537 words)

	Jacques Marquette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Father Marquette was a Jesuit missionary born in Laon, France, who joined the Society of Jesus at age seventeen.
		Marquette stopped at the mission of St. Francis Xavier in Green Bay in September, while Joliet returned to Quebec to relate the good news of their discoveries.
		Father Marquette is memorialized in several towns and rivers that bear his name (such as Marquette, Michigan), as well as the Father Marquette National Memorial near St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques_Marquette (536 words)

	Jacques Marquette -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marquette stopped at the mission of St. Francis Xavier in (A city of eastern Wisconsin on an arm of Lake Michigan) Green Bay in September, while Joliet returned to Quebec to relate the good news of their discoveries.
		Marquette returned to the Illinois River in 1674 to found a mission among the Illinois people on the shore of (The 3rd largest of the Great Lakes; the largest fresh-water lake entirely within the United States borders) Lake Michigan.
		Father Marquette is memorialized in several towns and rivers that bear his name (such as (additional info and facts about Marquette, Michigan) Marquette, Michigan), as well as the Father Marquette National Memorial near (additional info and facts about St. Ignace, Michigan) St.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jacques_marquette.htm (612 words)

	History of Iowa Vol 1 Chapter 3
		Father Marquette was one of the most devoted of missionaries, who had for years spent his life among the Indians in the French possessions.
		Marquette and Joliet were charmed with the beauty of the country, the fertile prairies with their mantles of luxuriant grass and wild flowers stretching away westward; the fish and game most plentiful, and their friendly reception by the Indians.
		Father Marquette's chief interest, in all of his daring expeditions into unknown regions, was the conversion of the Indians to Christianity.
	iagenweb.org /history/hoi/HOI1Chp3.htm (3314 words)

	Father John P. Raynor, 1923-1997 - Marquette University
		Father Raynor was hospitalized in August for treatment of a melanoma on his scalp which was subsequently found to have metastasized.
		Father Raynor was president of Marquette from 1965 to 1990, the longest tenure of any president in Marquette's 116-year history.
		Father Raynor was born in Omaha, Neb., on Oct. 1, 1923.
	www.marquette.edu /raynor/news.html (718 words)

	Father Jacques Marquette
		This intelligence was sent back to Quebec, and Fathers Marquette and Dablon, two energetic priests, set out to explore the mysterious land and plant the banner of the Cross in the very heart of the heathen world.
		Marquette and his companions spread light sails over their canoes and voyaged quite rapidly on the bosom of the Mississippi with winds and currents, past the inflowing waters of the Missouri and Ohio, and other less tributaries, stopping on the shores and holding friendly intercourse with the natives.
		Marquette's remains lie in the bosom of Michilimackinack or Mackinack.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/fatherjac_jh.html (1028 words)

	Father Marquette
		In 1666 Marquette was sent as a missionary to New France (the French colonies in the New World) where he spent 2 years learning 6 Native American languages.
		Marquette thought it was a great opportunity to spread Christianity among the Indians they may meet on the way to find the river, so in May of 1673 a 7-man expedition set off in birch bark canoes.
		Marquette got very ill at this time, and he had to camp for the winter.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002678F/father_marquette.htm (391 words)

	Cahokia: The Dawn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		FATHER SEBASTIAN RALE, S. On the death of Father Allouez, Father Sebastian Rale, S. J., was selected as his successor, and he arrived at the Illinois Mission in the Spring of 1692.
		Father Gravier was one of the ablest and most successful of all the Illinois missionaries.
		Father Pinet died at Chicago, July 16, 1704, and he was succeeded in the Tamaroa Mission by Reverend Father Francis Buisson de St. Cosmo, and Reverend Father John Bergier, priests of the Seminary of Foreign Missions, and the Tamaroa Mission, Cahokia, was thereafter until 1763 conducted under the care of that order of priests.
	www.eslarp.uiuc.edu /ibex/archive/Cahokia/dawn.htm (1192 words)

	Marquette_Joliet
		Jacques Marquette (also known as Father Marquette) was born in Laon, France in 1637.
		Father Marquette learned from the Indians that a great river that started in the north and flowed southward all the way to the ocean.
		Father Marquette was the chaplain of the expedition.
	morgan.k12.il.us /jvsd117/hj.html (478 words)

	Wyandotte County, Kansas History - Ch. I, pt. 1
		He, no doubt, was disappointed with his disillusionment when Father Marquette reported that his expedition floated down the Father of Waters far enough to be convinced that it must empty into the Gulf of Mexico and not into the Pacific ocean.
		Father Gabriel Mausest wrote a letter from Kaskaskia in 1712, which displays the prevailing misconception as to geographical matters.
		It was Father Hennepin, a Franciscan missionary, who explored the country in 1687, fourteen years after Father Marquette, and acquired the wonderful knowledge of the west that resulted in the making in 1723 of a map that could lay claim to any degree of authenticity.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/wyandott/history/1911/volume1/1.html (2539 words)

	Academic Michigan Upper Peninsula Information on Marquette USA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marquette, Nebraska is a rural village located in Hamilton County, some twenty miles northeast of Grand Island or thirteen miles north of Intertstate 80 on Nebraska 14.
		The village of Marquette and the civil township of Marquette are located in Green Lake County, immediately to the east of Marquette County.
		Marquette University, which was chartered by the Jesuits in 1864, opened in 1881 and became a university in 1907, is located in downtown Milwaukee.
	faculty.nmu.edu /upced/UPinfo/Mqts.htm (1183 words)

	Relation of the voyages, discoveries, and death, of Father James Marquette, and the subsequent voyages of Father ...
		Marquette's map and voyage have indeed appeared, but the narrative varies in no small degree from the authentic manuscript, and the map is not at all a copy of that still preserved, as it came from the hand of the great explorer.
		Father Dablon had meanwhile been named superior-general of the Canada missions, and seems to have taken the more interest in the exploring of the Mississippi by the "Wisconsin, as the projected Illinois mission of Father Marquette was, for a time at least, defeated.
		Father Marquette, whose missionary efforts had been neutralized by the unsettled state of his neophytes, and the concentration of their thoughts on the all-engrossing war, was now left alone with the Hurons.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /service/rbc/rbfr/0010/0010.sgm (16809 words)

	Marquette and Jolliet - The Mississippi River (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marquette spoke to Jolliet of his desire to go to the Michissipi and begin his ministrations to the natives of the region.
		The Jesuits authorized Father Marquette to join the exploration and soon the group was en route for the St. Ignatius (St. Ignace) mission on Michillimakinac, at the juncture of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, where they arrived on December 8.
		Marquette became ill along the way and, when the travellers reached the Jesuit Mission at Green Bay, Father Marquette was left there to recover.
	www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/z16jolliet1.htm (465 words)

	2001.10.01: "Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
		The school is named for a remarkable man. Father Jacques Marquette was a missionary who preached tirelessly to thousands, and he was also a keen observer of the natural order.
		In fact, Father Marquette was the first person ever to develop a theory concerning the running of the tides on the Great Lakes.
		Father Raynor left many legacies, but this library will be a daily reminder of his commitment to education, to young people and to our great state of Wisconsin.
	www.hhs.gov /news/speech/2001/011001.html (683 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Marquette followed, and in the summer of 1671, founded the mission of Saint-Ignace on the north shore of the straits of Michilimackinac.
		Jolliet and Marquette sailed on to a point near the modern boundary of Arkansas and Louisiana, turning their canoes in mid-July, and heading up-stream, back through the Chicago River to Lake Michigan, which they reached in September.
		In “Attempted mayhem on Père Marquette,” Mid-America, XXXI (1949), 109—15, Jerome V. Jacobson refutes this, both by arguments taken from the Jesuit Constitutions, and by publishing a new document that records the ordination of a Jacques Marquette at Toul on 7 March 1666.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34519 (1584 words)

	Marquette Fiction Marquette City Timeline
		It is believed Marquette will now become greatest port on Lake Superior and be capable of handling all iron ore shipped for many years to come.
		Marquette sends its young men as enlisted soldiers to train at Fort Custer for World War I. - Marquette County Historical Society is founded.
		The founder of Starbucks is a graduate from Marquette's Northern Michigan University.
	www.marquettefiction.com /page7.html (2857 words)

	Diocese of Joliet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Father Marquette and Joliet brought with them a strong desire to share the Gospel, and a great respect for the people they encountered.
		The explorers found the Illinois to be handsome, lively, intelligent; Father Marquette compared their dances with the beauty of the ballet in Paris.
		Joliet and Father Marquette were followed by Jesuit Father Hennepin and other priests of the Society of Jesus who developed missions in this area, as well as missionaries from other religious communities and soldiers.
	www.dioceseofjoliet.org /history.asp (2078 words)

	Office of Catholic Schools (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pere Jacques Marquette was a Jesuit missionary born in France in 1636.
		Father Jacques Marquette was a famous scholarly Jesuit missionary from New France who took an exploration in 1673 down the Mississippi River.
		Father Marquette also inspires us today as Catholics to be a missionary within our own family, church and community.
	schools.archdiocese-chgo.org /news_releases/news_2003/news_111103.shtm (1142 words)

	Father Jacques Marquette Lesson Plans from the Wisconsin Historical Society
		The journal describes the seven-member expedition led by explorer Louis Jolliet and Father Marquette that identified a water route connecting Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River.
		Father Marquette's journal begins as the expedition departed from the mission at St. Ignace on May 17, 1673.
		Consider Marquette's description of the portage from the Fox River to the Wisconsin River.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /teachers/lessons/secondary/marquette.asp (722 words)

	American Journeys Background on The Mississippi Voyage of Jolliet and Marquette
		Jacques Marquette, born in Laon, France in 1637, entered the Jesuit order in 1654 and was sent on a foreign mission to Canada in 1666.
		French officials commissioned Louis Joliet and Father Marquette to explore the region and to claim that vast stretch of land for the French Crown.
		Marquette’s two manuscripts were kept for 150 years in the Jesuit convent in Montreal, though an abridged version appeared in Melchisedec Thevenot’s Recueil de Voyages in 1681.
	www.americanjourneys.org /aj-051/summary/index.asp (646 words)

	The mystery of Pere Marquette's final resting place
		Marquette died at the mouth of the third river south of Sleeping Bear Point, then as now a landmark.
		Marquette and a group of Hurons he had converted to Christianity built the St. Ignace mission in 1671.
		A monument to Marquette was erected in 1921 by the Ludington chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution about a half mile from the spot where some believe the missionary and explorer died.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=158&category=people (1371 words)

	MSU Archaeology: Marquette Mission Site - Father Jacker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Father Edward Jacker, the local Jesuit priest at the time, responded to the invitation of a local farmer to examine what was suspected to be the remains of the Jesuit mission.
		In the Jesuit Relations, Father Dablon indicates that Marquette’s bones were buried in the center of the church.
		This depression was interpreted as the burial vault of Father Marquette and the two bone fragments his remains.
	www.ssc.msu.edu /~anp/marquettemission/Jacker.html (267 words)

	Father Marquette National Memorial and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On a rise overlooking the Straits of Mackinac, the Father Marquette National Memorial and Museum tells the story of that seventeenth-century missionary/explorer and the meeting of French and Native American cultures deep in the North American wilderness.
		This 53 acre park is dedicated to the memory of Father Marquette, his voyage down the Mississippi River and the Native Americans who first settled the Straits of Mackinac area.
		The Father Marquette National Memorial and Museum is located two miles west of St. Ignace, in the Straits State Park, just off US 2.
	www.destinationmichigan.com /v2/display/premium_ad_new.php?PHPSESSID=289f813feae87628e34378b4408afd2c&nID=507 (234 words)

	Native Americans:Historic:Footnotes
		Letter from Father Gabriel Marest, Missionary of the Society of Jesus, to Father Germon, of the same Society [1712].
		Letter of Father Julien Binneteau, of the Society of Jesus, to a Father of the same Society [1699].
		Letter by Father Jacques Gravier in the form of a journal of the Mission of l'Immaculee Conception de Notre Dame in the Illinois country [1694].
	www.museum.state.il.us /muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/re_notes.html (1954 words)

	THE PIASA MONSTER BIRD
		Since Father Marquette first made known his 1673 discovery of painted monsters "upon which the boldest Indians dared not long rest their eyes", a furious controversy has raged among ethnohistorians aiming to prove or disprove the validity of the Piasa (pronounced pie-ah-saw) painting.
		Since locating the bluff that Father Marquette saw seems to be a point in question in determining the credibility of the account, some wonder whether the Jesuit may have not seen the pictograph along the banks of the Mississippi River at all.
		In Marquette's records, he never tells of having seen the Illinois River on his trip south along the Mississippi, leading one to believe that he, indeed, had taken an overland route to the Missouri.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/bodhidharma/piasa.html (4941 words)

	Consolidated Docket No. 317, Defendant Exhibits 61-171, Dft. Ex. 63
		They are very docile, and listen quietly to What is said to Them; and they appeared so eager to Hear Father Alloues when he Instructed them that they gave Him but little rest, even during the night.
		Father Binteau, who knows the customs of the savages as well as I do, will do it better than I can.
		He, as well as father Pinet at Chicagwa, will do themselves the pleasure of rendering them every kind of service.
	www.gbl.indiana.edu /archives/dockett_317/317_3b.html (2411 words)

	Marquette (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In death as much as life, Father Jacques Marquette's story was one of long and difficult journeys.
		Marquette alumni pushed for recognition, but critics demanded a real American instead.
		But efforts to swap Marquette for another Wisconsin figure went nowhere, and in 1904 -- almost 17 years after his last journey had begun -- a resolution accepting the statue finally was approved.
	www.jsonline.com /news/state/wis150/stories/0924sesq.stm (486 words)

	Jacques Marquette -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although the funding for a Jesuit school in Milwaukee had been secured by 1848, Marquette College was not established until 1881; it began as a liberal arts college for men and was named for the 17th-century French Jesuit...
		Settled in the 1840s, it was originally known as Marquette for Jacques Marquette, the Jesuit explorer who died there in 1675 (a memorial cross near the harbour marks the site).
		The story of the long and dangerous journey of Marquette and Jolliet is one of the most interesting chapters in the history of the exploration of the New World.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051070?tocId=9051070&query=null&ct=null (745 words)

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