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Claude-Jean Allouez
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Biography
Claude-Jean Allouez (1622-1689) was a French Jesuit missionary in CanadaCanada and the Great Lakes region.
Claude jean allouez biography of rory gilmore
He arrived in New FranceNew France in 1658 and served at missions throughout the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes region until his death at NilesNiles in 1689. Allouez's ministered to at least twenty-three different Native American societies of Michigan and WisconsinWisconsin for thirty-two years and is claimed to have baptized at least 10,000 people during those years.
So extensive were his travels and his accomplishments (no other Jesuit missionary traveled as widely in the West as did Allouez) that John Gillmary Shea called Allouez, "the founder of Catholicity in the West."1
Ministry in the Great Lakes region
In 1660, he was appointed as father superior at the mission at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
In 1663 he was appointed by Bishop François de Laval to be vicar general of