| Columbia Encyclopedia: Claude Jean Allouez |
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| 1679 | Recit d'un 3e voyage fait aux Illinois. Published in part in Jesuit Relations, this prayer book/journal chronicles the French Jesuit missionary Allouez's observations of American Indians. It is an invaluable ethnographic source. |
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Claude Jean Allouez (June 6, 1622 - August 28, 1689); was a Jesuit missionary and French explorer of North America.[1]
Allouez was born in Saint-Didier-en-Velay in the département of Haute-Loire in south-central France. In 1639, he graduated from the College of Le Puy, and became a Jesuit novice in Toulouse, France. In 1655, he was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Allouez arrived in Quebec in 1658 and immediately began a study of the Wyandot and Anishinaabe languages to prepare himself for work as a missionary among the American Indian tribes along the St. Lawrence River for three years.
In 1660 he became the superior of the mission at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. His stay there lasted until 1663 when he was named vicar general of a part of the diocese of Quebec that is now the central region of the United States. This appointment was made by Bishop François de Laval, the first bishop of New France.
From 1667 through 1669 Allouez made a missionary tour of the western missions. He served as a missionary to the Potawatomi Indians in Wisconsin. The next year he was with the
A good portion of Father Allouez’s written work from the time has been preserved. It provides insight into the missions of the time and provides a record that is extensive and important of the Catholic Church in mid-America. It also contains the first documented accounts of the Illinois Indians.
The small village of Allouez, Wisconsin near Green Bay, is named for him, as is a trail on Mackinac Island, in Northern Michigan, the Allouez Trail.
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