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410 He says that he had also planted two chapels on the outskirts of the village; one on the way to the fields, the other on the edge of the forest. These were dedicated respectively to the Virgin, with her image in relief, and to the Guardian Angel. The Indian women rivalled each other in lavishing upon these chapels all their trinkets and finery.

In the “Relation” of Father Jacques Bigot, from the Sillery Mission of St. Francis de Sales, in 1684, we read the following: —

Without these altar furnishings the Jesuit was as a workman without materials or tools. Father Le Jeune, in the “Relation” for 1637, writes: —