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<p> a French missionary to America, arrived in [[Canada]] in 1684. He was sent at once to the [[Illinois]] region, to follow up the labors of Marquette and others. He made a canoe voyage from Kaskaskia down the [[Mississippi]] to confer with Iberville; went down a second time in 1706, and from thence to Europe. He returned in February, 1708, re-embarked, and died at sea in April of the same year. He wrote a grammar of the Illinois language, a journal of his voyage down the Mississippi in 1700, and other works, a part of which have been published. See Appleton's Amer. Cyclop. s.v. </p> | <p> a French missionary to America, arrived in [[Canada]] in 1684. He was sent at once to the [[Illinois]] region, to follow up the labors of Marquette and others. He made a canoe voyage from Kaskaskia down the [[Mississippi]] to confer with Iberville; went down a second time in 1706, and from thence to Europe. He returned in February, 1708, re-embarked, and died at sea in April of the same year. He wrote a grammar of the Illinois language, a journal of his voyage down the Mississippi in 1700, and other works, a part of which have been published. See Appleton's Amer. Cyclop. s.v. </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_42210"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/gravier,+jacques Jacques Gravier from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_42210"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/gravier,+jacques Jacques Gravier from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:36, 15 October 2021
Jacques Gravier [1]
a French missionary to America, arrived in Canada in 1684. He was sent at once to the Illinois region, to follow up the labors of Marquette and others. He made a canoe voyage from Kaskaskia down the Mississippi to confer with Iberville; went down a second time in 1706, and from thence to Europe. He returned in February, 1708, re-embarked, and died at sea in April of the same year. He wrote a grammar of the Illinois language, a journal of his voyage down the Mississippi in 1700, and other works, a part of which have been published. See Appleton's Amer. Cyclop. s.v.
