Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-14
LIFE OF FATHER MARQUETTE
BubisUt Of Lecture Delivered By BiHhuF
O'eurmEr q Sioux FElA
WlssIOKEEYs WORK AMONG INDIANS
bishop save work Of ortsttsn CfvfIS-
Estion Kept Faee With h E1ple-
rHrfons Of Marquette on
h Ne- Continent

ate lar nirh1. Biknup OrGurmHn o. Sioux
Pals delivered Al address on The lie uf
Father Marquette. The Jesuit missionary
Wit discovered The Mississippi river IN
carrying The gospel 10 ths EburiEtnsE Of
America. The bishop was introduced by
Z. ". Eime-Hl. q member o. The Knights
Of Columbus. under whose auspices the lee
tu-s waf given. The bishop said IN part.
IT lie strange IhE7 fur centuries I'VE
races Of men existed without knowledge Of
the other. -Four hundred years ago there
was unveiled 10 old Europe new hslds 70
be Won md new people 70 bs ChristiHnizsd.
Columbus. the ChriE--rBHrsr az ms name
Christopher means, broke through The veil
separating the continents. Two nations be
gEn 10 hiring 70 America the EnEpsl and civ
f1iEBriun o. ChrisrEufry-FrBDue and Spuin
one IN The north Hnd the other In the
south Lei us give them cue credit. they
were The morning tuilerB. we the evening
rsEpsrs. but Jet us give credit TO Catholic
Prince and CEthuhc Spain for the work
they have done.
Among the French explorers Was Father
Marquette. III explorer and q missiunHry.
for be 81 BEid Of France that the spread q
Chris-iauiry WIS the natural consequence
o. The extension q French territory. and
every charter mentioned the fact that The
spread o. Christianity should be cared for
FIRST
Exploration and Missionary work.
The bishop read from the works Of Park
man md Bancroft. showing the relation
between exploration and missionary work
in the minds Of French people Of that DAY,
and the experience q the missionaries in
the wilderness, where torture and peril
awaited them. and continued:
'This praise that PRrkmRn gives them
is well deserved and when they suffered
Al the stake ur died under the tumRhEvF
they disd with the spirit o. the early
Christian martyrs, or when they died like
Marquette they died for the glory Of the
God they served End the honor Of France.
In the town OF LRun. in June, 1897. wBB
burn Jean Marquette. His youth was spent
in home and school. hut in his blood pull
stated rwo elements seemingly trrecunrlR-
ble-ths spirit o. VIZ and the spirit o. the
Uhurrh-both pr~ednminRtsd. for he entered
the service Of the church IN q society
founded ny & soldier. n the are Of Il For
twelve years be studied and taught. At the
Rgs Of % he WIS ordained 3 priest and his
supsriurF marked him out as a missionary
in The new continent. After three months
sailing he landed in Quebec
ChriEtiHnaEinE the Indiana
''on St. Mnry's river the Indians gath
cred in large numbers. There WIS 3
Christian community Of 1000 Indians. ! DO
not mean TO say thai they were al hap
rised. for there were many Cochumens. as
in pagan Rome IN the early days uf Chris
~tiHnity. Here FBthsr Marquette lEbo-ed
q year and wRs ordered TO the west. On
the present site Of Ashland, Wis. Yrs u
settlement o. 1.5OD Christian Indians. II
you attempt 10 read IN PRrkmBD and Ban
croft Of these early settlements ynu must
remember that the hahd waters Cd rivers
we're important things, as the rivers were
ths fburouEhfEres u the IndiHn- Near this
mission dwsh the Sioux. the herneEt tribe
Of Indians OF the time, Of which we have
u. 900 in South Dakota. OF which EDOD are
Catholic. There are two tribes 10 be
remembered in American histury-ths 1rD-
uuuis and the Sioux. These Sioux had gone
on the wErpath against the Indians under
Father Marquette. These Indians took
alarm and went eastward 70 the site u the
present MRrkinRw. Many have seen the
present beauties and enterprise Of Mack
NAV, but what must IL have been in the
earlier dHy-Gn ideal pErRdise-End here
was buin the most hourishinE settlement
OF the Jesuit fathers. Here Father Mar
) uustts hoped TO stay. but one DAY Louis
Joliet came along with orders 10 explore
: the Mississippi river. Opinion is that Mar
uuette il the disc0Yersr % the Mississippl
! river.
, On Site Of Chicago.
D ION the site o. the great city Of Chi
. cEEo Marquette passed 3 winter on his vHy
1 TO establish Z settlement % Indians al rhs
. present site Of Peoria. he contracted the
. disease with which he died and desired II
? return TO his fellows. Arriving near the
/ site Of the CITY OF CDvinEtun, Mich, bt
stopped. heard the confessions Of his COM
. pHuiuns and here he died. Oh the bank
c Of Lake Michigan. Two years later IN
dams brought MS bones back 10 MAcEtnRw
Hundreds % canoes came Out 10 meet tbs
{ remains Of Father Marquette and amid thi
songs OF the Indians his remains wsr'
buried. Today cities. towns and counties
K are proud 10 bear his name. The painter
7 brush has reproduced his feathers. Be
: rsEth the dome Of The capitol II Washing
Ion stands his statue, and should II no
srHnd there, for he WIS q maker o. thii
country"