Linda Carol Jones. The Shattered Cross
French Catholic Missionaries on the Mississippi River, 1698–1725
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13063335 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine O’donnell (0000-0002-5368-3779, Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 315-317 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Jesuit Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2214-1324 • E-ISSN: 2214-1332 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22141332-09020011-08 |
| OpenAlex | W4206214992 |
| Language | EN |
Linda Carol Jones has written a carefully designed and empathetically executed study of five missionaries from the Séminaire de Québec, a Roman Catholic community of priests founded in 1663 by New France’s first bishop, Francois de Lavalle. The five missionaries—Fathers Foucault, Bergier, de Montigny, Saint-Cosme, and Davion—labored between 1698 and 1725 among Indigenous peoples of the Mississippi Valley, including the Tamarois, Tunicas, Tanesas, Natchez, and Quapaws. Jones takes seriously the missionaries’ purposes and labors while also illuminating the social and spiritual worlds of the Native peoples, worlds the missionaries signally failed to transform.Jones artfully pieces together archival sources (many
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| Highly cited | No |
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