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"The Visit of Father Allouez to Lake Nipigon in 1667"
by Rev. Francis J. NELLIGAN, S.J.,
Jesuit Seminary, Toronto, Ontario
“After accomplishing a good part of our journey on the Lake, we left it on the twenty-fifth of this month of May, and consigned ourselves to a River, so full of rapids and falls that even our Savages could go no farther." “As we drew near our journey’s end, we occasionally met Nipissirinien Savages, wandering from their homes to seek a livelihood in the woods. Gathering together a considerable number of them for the celebration of Whitsuntide, I prepared them by a long instruction for the hearing of the holy sacrifice of the Mass, which I celebrated in a Chapel of Foliage. They listened with as much piety and decorum as do our Savages of Quebec in our Chapel at Sillery; and to me it was the sweetest refreshment I had during the Journey, entirely removing all past fatigue.” Father Allouez, 1667 |
The first priest who visited the north shore of Lake Superior was Father Claude Allouez, S.J. During the early summer of 1667 he was at Lake Nipigon where he went to meet the Nipissings, an Algonkian tribe. Allouez had established in 1665 the Mission of the Holy Spirit on Chequamegon Bay in the present State of Wisconsin. From there he set out early in May, 1667, accompanied by two Indians, to visit the Christians among the Nipissings. this first Mass in Northwestern Ontario of May 29, 1667, was very probably said in the near vicinity of Virgin Falls where the Nipigon River begins to flow southwards.
Virgin Falls
The Visit of Father Allouez to Lake Nipigon in 1667
Father Allouez
