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Did you know The Jesuits were founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola who wanted to spread the Catholic faith He thought priests should have military-type discipline Loyola called his followers Soldiers of Christ Meet the Boss In 1673 Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet teamed up to explore the mighty Mississippi River They came from different backgrounds and had separate ambitions but together they made history MISSION TO THE NEW WORLD Called to the priesthood Moves to New World Jacques Marquette right was born in 1637 He was the sixth child born into a wealthy French family At age 17 Marquette began studying to become a Jesuit priest He wanted to be a missionary and spread the Catholic faith in the New World which is now known as North America This has been my thought since my earliest childhood he wrote In 1666 he arrived in New France the French colony in what is now Canada LEARNING THE LINGO Language skills help to spread the message After he arrived in New France in 1666 Marquette spent two years studying the dialects of local Native languages such as Algonquian and Iroquoian This proved useful later when he met and camped with people on his travels He was able to communicate with them and learn about their cultures The Jesuits sent Marquette to the city of Sault Sainte Marie in the Great Lakes region He soon left to set up his own mission St Ignace in what is now Michigan 4 TRAVEL WITH THE GREAT EXPLORERS
A CANADIAN EXPLORER Young man trains for priesthood Then chooses new path Louis Jolliet was born in 1645 near Quebec a settlement in New France His father Jean repaired wagons As a boy Jolliet attended a Jesuit college At age 17 he began studying for the priesthood but he soon changed his mind Instead he left for France to study cartography for a year When he returned to New France he decided to look for a life of adventure IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY Life in the wilderness Jolliet’s older brother Adrien was a fur trapper When Jolliet returned from France he decided to join Adrien and become a coureur de bois Jolliet learned to speak the languages of the Algonquian people and traveled across the wilderness to Sault Sainte Marie There in June 1671 Jolliet was one of the men who signed a declaration claiming a vast area of land for King Louis XIV of France LET'S GO Explorers team up Native peoples around Lake Michigan talked about the Misi-ziibi which means big river in Ojibwe Father Claude-Jean Allouez a Jesuit missionary heard these stories in the early 1670s The French wanted to explore more of North America It is not clear when Jolliet and Marquette first met They may have known each other in Quebec or Sault Sainte Marie In 1673 the two men decided to find and explore the Big River EXPLORE WITH MARQUETTE AND JOLLIET 5
