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Allouez, Claude Jean
Jesuit missionary; b. Saint Didier-en-Forez, France, June 6, ; d. near Niles, Mich., Aug. 27&#x;28, He joined the Jesuits at Toulouse (), studied there and at Billom and Rodez, and was ordained in He was 36 when he arrived in Canada, where he spent the next seven years ministering to the settlers in the Saint Lawrence area.
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In he was named vicar-general to Bishop François de Montmorency Laval of Quebec. Allouez's assignment to the Great Lakes region marked the first step toward the organization of the hierarchy in the central part of what later became the United States.
From to he traveled the Great Lakes region in all directions&#x;Huron, Superior, Erie, Michigan&#x;covering 3, miles, preaching to more than 20 native tribes, and, it is said, baptizing about 10, persons. In he went to Lake Nipigon and celebrated the first Mass to be offered within the boundaries of the present Diocese of Fort-William, Ontario.
He worked among the Illinois, prepared a pray