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Enemond Massé
The Catholic Encyclopedia
or One of the first Jesuits sent to New France; born at Lyons, 1574; died at Sillery, 12 May, 1646. He went to Acadia with Father Biard, and when it was found impossible to effect any good there, they established a new mission at the present Bar Harbor, Maine, which was soon after destroyed by the English — Massé being set adrift on the sea in an open boat. He succeeded in reaching a French ship and returned to France. In 1625 he again set sail for Canada, and remained there until the fall of Quebec. He returned a third time in 1632, but, as he was in advanced in age, he no longer laboured among the savages, but lived mostly at Sillery, which he built as a reservation for the converted Indians. A monument has recently been erected to his honour at this place on the site of the old Jesuit Church which stood on the bank of the St. Lawrence a short distance above Quebec.
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Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Enemond Massé'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/e/enemond-masseacute.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
