Le Jeune, Paul

Le Jeune, Paul

Jean le Jeune performed a lot of missionary work in Montreal, mainly in trying to convert the Indigenous Peoples to Christianity. He mainly did this through the Ville-Marie settlement project, and as well through the Jesuits of Quebec. He also spent a lot of time with the Indigenous Peoples and tried to understand their language and music culture. He did this in hopes to make it easier to bridge them over to Christianity. He also gathered a lot of information to later publish in Relations des Jesuites. He also joined the M. de La Dauversiere’s project where he was the first to publish in text the plan of the Messieurs de Montreal.

1639-1649

Person

M. de La Dauversiere project & Ville-Marie settlement project. Also superior-general of missionary mission in Canada, and superior of the Jesuits of Quebec. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada).

Cornelius J. Jaenen, “Paul le Jeune”, in The Canadian Encycolpedia, 2018, accessed September 29, 2021, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/paul-le-jeune
Dale Miquelon, “Ville-Marie (Colony), in The Canadian Encycolpedia, 2018, accessed September 29, 2021,https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ville-marie-colony
Helmut Kallmann, “Missionaries in the 17th Century”, in The Canadian Encycolpedia, 2018, accessed September 29, 2021,https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/missionaries-in-the-17th-century-emc

1591

Province of Champagne, France

1665

France

Teacher at the colleges in Rennes and Bourges; taught rhetoric at Nevers; taught rhetoric at Caen; preaching at Dieppe and in charge of the Jesuit residence in this town; superior-general of mission in Canada; superior of the Jesuits of Quebec; office of procurator of mission; editor of Relations des Jesuites de la Nouvelle-France

French; language spoken by the Indigenous Peoples

Paul le Jeune embraced Catholicism at the age of 16. Paul le Jeune served as a missionary priest in Montreal, as well as supported the Ville-Marie settlement project, which was to bring Christianity to the Indigenous Peoples. He also established many personal relations with members of the Societe Notre-Dame de Montreal. Le Jeune also had an interest in the language of the Indigenous Peoples to this area and spent a lot of time with the Indigenous people of the land trying to learn their language and to understand their music. It was also during the M.de La Dauversiere’s project that he saw the finger of God which led him to joining the project. It was during his time in the M. de La Dauversiere’s project that he published the first plan of the Messieurs de Montreal in text.

Cornelius J. Jaenen, “Paul le Jeune”, in The Canadian Encycolpedia, 2018, accessed September 29, 2021, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/paul-le-jeune
Dale Miquelon, “Ville-Marie (Colony), in The Canadian Encycolpedia, 2018, accessed September 29, 2021,https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ville-marie-colony
Helmut Kallmann, “Missionaries in the 17th Century”, in The Canadian Encycolpedia, 2018, accessed September 29, 2021,https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/missionaries-in-the-17th-century-emc

Les portraits du pere jesuite Paul Le Jeune, confusions et conversions, Donald Guthrie McNab, Sept.1895.
https://rd.uqam.ca/LeJeune/1895McNab.html

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