It Was He, Who, In 1647, Discovered Lake St.
John, And, In 1653, Celebrated The Mass At The Hotel Dieu,
When the
Sister Marie de L'Incarnation embraced the religious profession.
Father de Quen was buried on the morning of the
9th praesente
corpore, dictae duae missae privatae, in summo altari, dum diceretur
officium. He was 59 years of age. The Journal des Jesuites
does not say that he was interred in the chapel, but it is easy to
infer the fact from the two private masses said in presence of
the body, and also because the entry of his burial does not appear in
the parish register. Moreover, it is also the opinion of Rev. Messrs.
Laverdiere and Casgrain, as published in the Journal des Jesuites.
On the 15th November, 1665, arrived at Quebec, coming from the
Richelieu River, a vessel bringing the body of Father Francois du
Peron, who died on the 10th at Fort St. Louis (Chambly). The body was
exposed in the Chapel of the Congregation, and 'on the 16th, after the
service at which the Marquis de Tracy assisted, it was interred in the
vault of the chapel towards the confessional on the side of the
street,' and Father le Mercier, who wrote the foregoing, adds that
'there remains room only for another body.'
"From the preceding, it appears that three interments took place in
the Jesuits' Chapel (the only ones mentioned in the Journal des
Jesuites), and it is probable that the place remaining for only
one more body was never filled.
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