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Title: The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893
Subjects: Jesuits Jesuits
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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real was a wilderness, and the hospital would
have no patients. Therefore, in order to supply
them, the island must first be colonized. Dau-
versiere was greatly perplexed. On the one hand,
the voice of Heaven must be obeyed; on the other, he
had a wife, six children, and a very moderate fortune.²
Again: there was at Paris a young priest, about
twenty-eight years of age, — Jean Jacques Olier,
afterwards widely known as founder of the Seminary
of St. Sulpice. Judged by his engraved portrait, his
countenance, though marked both with energy and
intellect, was anything but prepossessing. Every
lineament proclaims the priest. Yet the Abbé Olier
has high titles to esteem. He signalized his piety,
it is true, by the most disgusting exploits of self-
mortification; but, at the same time, he was strenu-

1 Fancamp in Faillon, Vie de M^lle« Mance, Introduction.
² Faillon, Vie de M^lle Mance Introduction; Dollier de Casson,
hist. de Montréal, MS.; Les Véritables Motifs des Messieurs et Dames
de Montréal, 25; Juchereau, 33.


Jean Jacques Olier.
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1636.] VISIONS.—PRODIGIES. 5

ous in his efforts to reform the people and the clergy.
So zealous was he for good morals, that he diew upon
himself the imputation of a leaning to the heresy of
the Jansenists, — a suspicion strengthened by his
opposition to certain priests, who, to secure the faith-
ful in their allegiance, justified them in lives of
licentiousness.¹ Yet Olier's catholicity was past
attaintment, and in his horror of Jansenists he
yielded to the Jesuits alone.
He was praying in the ancient church of St. Ger-
main des Prés, when, like Dauversiere, he though
the heard a voice from Heaven, saying that he was
destined to be a light to the Gentiles. It is recorded
as a mystic coincidence attending this miracle, that
the choir was at that very time chanting the words,
Lumen ad revelationem Gentium;² and it seems to
have occurred neither to Olier nor to his biographer,
that, falling on the ear of the rapt worshipper, they
might have unconsciously suggested the supposed
revelation. But there was a further miracle.

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