François-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé
None
François-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé, S.S. (1641 – June 30, 1701) was a French nobleman and Sulpician priest who became the first resident pastor of the parish of Saint-Louis-du-Haut-de-l'Île (in what is now the town of Baie-D'Urfé ) on the Island of Montreal in New France . [1]
Life and career
Born into a prominent family of the French nobility , Lascaris d'Urfé held the title of Marquis de Baugé and was the brother of Louis Lascaris d'Urfé [ fr ] , who served from 1676 to 1695 as Bishop of Limoges . In 1660, Lascaris d'Urfé was admitted to the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and was ordained in 1665. He was sent as a missionary to New France in 1668. [2]
In 1669, he accompanied his cousin, François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon , to the Iroquois mission at Kenté , on Lake Ontario. [3] In 1672, Fénelon was to establish an Algonquin mission on the outskirts of Ville-Marie at a place called Gentilly . Lascaris d'Urfé replaced his cousin there in 1674. His support for Fénelon gave rise to his own problems with Governor Frontenac . Lascaris d'Urfé accompanied Fénelon back to France, where he wrote to Minister of Finance Jean-Baptiste Colbert (whose daughter-in-law was Lascaris d'Urfé's first cousin) of his mail being opened and other slights. [2]
Lascaris d'Urfé returned to Quebec in 1686, and soon after re-joined the Sulpicians at Montreal. [2] He then founded the mission of Saint-Louis-du-Haut-de-l'Île in the west end of Montreal Island at Pointe-Caron (site of the present-day Baie-D'Urfé Yacht Club). It was a small community of settlers, soldiers, traders, and Indians. At that time, the mission included the entire area from the tip of Montreal Island to Pointe-Claire, Île Perrot, Soulanges, Vaudreuil, and Île aux Tourtes. [4] The mission was attacked by the Iroquois in 1687. The town of Baie-D'Urfé is named after Abbé d'Urfé. [5]
After serving in Canada for nineteen years, Lascaris d'Urfé returned to France in 1687 to deal with family matters. He was subsequently appointed as Dean of Cathédrale Notre-Dame in Puy-en-Velay . In addition, he served as Abbé of Uzerche from 1695 to 1701. Lascaris d'Urfé died in 1701 at his château of Baugé.
References
- ↑ Lee, Thomas Roche (n.d.). The story of abbé François-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé; Sulpician missionary (1641-1701) after whom the town of Baie d'Urfé is named . [n.p.] p. 4.
- 1 2 3 Yon, Armand. Lascaris D’Urfé, François-Saturnin , Dictionary of Canadian Biography , vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003.
- ↑ First Citizen of Baie d'Urfé
- ↑ "History", City of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
- ↑ Town of Baie-D'Urfé
- Répertoire général du clergé canadien, par ordre chronologique depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours , par Mgr Cyprien Tanguay , Montréal: Eusèbe Senécal & fils, imprimeurs-éditeurs, 1893.
International | |
---|---|
National | |
Other |