Jean de quen biography of mahatma
Jean de quen biography of mahatma
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Jean de Quen
French Jesuit missionary
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Jean de Quen (May c.&#; in Amiens, France – 8 October , in Quebec City) was a FrenchJesuit missionary, priest and historian.
As head of Jesuit missions of New France, he founded the missions to Saguenay. In , Jean de Quen was the first European to reach the shores of Piékouagami (Lac Saint-Jean).[1]
Early life
Born c.&#;, in Amiens, Picardie, Jean de Quen was about years-old when he joined the Jesuits on 13 September He taught for three years at the Collège in Eu, and then left for New France.
He arrived at Quebec on 17 August ,[2] where he taught at the College of Quebec, which opened that same year for French and First Nations boys.
Jean de quen biography of mahatma gandhi
He taught there for two years before joining the Sillery mission, an initiative aimed at educating the native peoples. He later left the mission and went back to Quebec to minister to the parish of Notre-Dame-de-la-Recouvrance.
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