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Maillard, Antoine Simon, 1710-1762We have 1 book for this author.Antoine-Simon Maillard( d.1762) was a French Roman Catholic Missionary. He was sent to Acadia by the French Seminary of Foreign Missions in 1735. In 1740 he was appointed vicar-general to the Bishop of Quebec, and resided at Louisbourg until its fall in 1745, after which he retired to the woods and ministered to the dispersed Acadians and First Nations of Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, and the eastern coast of Nova Scotia. He studied the language of the Mi'kmaqs for eight years, and composed a hieroglyphic alphabet, a grammar, a dictionary, a prayerbook, a catechism, and a series of sermons. Maillard was the only Catholic priest allowed by the English to remain in Nova Scotia. When the First Nations fought the British occupation, the Government appealed to Maillard, who negotiated a peace. In recognition, he was invited to Halifax, where a church was built for him, and the government permitted the free exercise of Catholicism. ReferencesExternal links
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. This biographical information was gathered from the Antoine_Simon_Maillard page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project. BooksAn Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton |
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