Silvy, Antoine (Missionary in Quebec, Quebec)

Silvy, Antoine (Missionary in Quebec, Quebec)

Antoine Silvy began in Quebec in 1673 where he had become and ordained priest and began evangelizing to many different groups of Indigenous peoples, from Chicoutimi (1678-1679) to Portneuf (Winter of 1683). He mastered the languages quickly allowing him to speak to each colony about God in their own language. He then traveled out of Quebec, but when he came back, he became a math teacher for a few years before changing into a spiritual director as well as a minister and mission adviser. This left him as a very accomplished evangelist, and he got high praises for it after he died in Quebec in 1711.

(1673-1684) Missionary; (1693-1711) Math Teacher, Missions Adviser, Minister & Spiritual Director

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Quebec,Quebec, Canada; Hudson Bay, Quebec, Canada

Victor Tremblay, “SILVY, ANTOINE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed September 30, 2021, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/silvy_antoine_2E.html

1638

Aix-en-Provence, France

1711

Quebec, Quebec

Priest; Missionary; Teacher

French, Different Indigenous languages

Antoine Silvy was a Jesuit, and was explicitly Christian, as he spent his life preaching and going around as a missionary. He began by preaching to different Indigenous communities, then he adventured out with Chevalier de Troyes to go preach to the Indigenous peoples farther away from Quebec. He got back to Quebec in 1693 and he worked as a math teacher for a few years, then he worked as a minister and mission adviser as well as a spiritual director to end of his career before he passed away in 1711.

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Conflict and Change in Early Canadian History (Carleton HIST 1301)

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