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CHARLES LALEMANT, JESUIT SUPERIOR - 18 NOVEMBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 18th of November WELCOME! CHARLES LALEMANT, JESUIT SUPERIOR The cover of the Jesuit Relations for 1662–1663, a report published annually from  Jesuit   missions in the field to their superiors to update them on the missionaries' progress. Charles Lalemant [Charles Lallemant] was born in Paris, November 17 , 1587; died there, November 18 , 1674. He was the first superior of the  Jesuit  missions in Canada, and his letter to his brother Jerome dated August 1 , 1626, inaugurated the series of " Relations " about the missionary work in that country. Thwarted by the Trading Company at Quebec in his efforts to evangelize the indigenous Americans, he went back to France to protest. Attempting to return to America his vessel was captured and he was sent as a prisoner to England. A second attempt resulted in shipwreck off Cape Canso , and on his way back to France in a fishing smack which picked him up he was ...