Pierre Chaumonot (1611 - 1693)

Contents 1 Biographie 2 Biography 2.1 1611 Birth 2.2 1632 Entrance to Novitiate 2.3 1639 Arrival in Canada 2.4 1674 Notre Dame de Lorette 2.5 1691 Retirement 2.6 1693 Death 3 Notes 3.1 Fichier origine 4 Sources

Biographie

Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, né le 9 mars 1611^[1] à Sainte-Colombe-sur-Seine, Côte-d'Or (France) 1 et décédé le 21 février 1693 à Québec, était un prêtre jésuite français, missionnaire en Nouvelle-France (Canada) qui fut durant plus de cinquante ans missionnaire au Canada, parmi les Hurons, qui lui avaient donné le nom de Héchon ^[2]

Biography

Pierre Chaumonot was also known as Joseph Marie Chaumonot. ^[3]

He adopted the additional names Joseph Marie when he entered the novitiate.

1611 Birth

Pierre Chaumonot was born 9 March 1611 at Ste-Colombe-sur-Seine (Côte d’Or, Burgundy). ^[3] (note: Ste-Colombe-sur-Seine is quite near Châtillon-sur-Seine)

1632 Entrance to Novitiate

He entered St. Andrew’s Jesuit novitiate in Rome on 18 May 1632 at the age of twenty-one, and ordained in late 1637 or early 1638. It was at this time that he added the name "Joseph-Marie". ^[4]

1639 Arrival in Canada

Leaving Dieppe on 4 May 1639, from the quays of Dieppe, he arrived in New France on 31 July. There he was immediately involved in the Huron mission being constructed at Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons near Georgian Bay under the leadership of Father Lalemant.

It was during the next years that Father Chaumonot was to achieve a mastery of the Huron language that he recorded for others to use in the study of the language. ^[4]

From that time on, he experienced a long series of moves under difficult circumstances.

Father Chaumonot spent nearly ten years in the Huron missions ^[5] and worked with many notable priests including Jean de Brébeuf, Simon Le Moyne, Claude Dablon and Antoine Daniel.

1674 Notre Dame de Lorette

One of Father Chaumonot's lasting achievements was the founding of the Huron mission of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette in 1674. ^[3]

In that year, a group of Hurons fleeing war with the Iroquois settled in this location under the protection of the French. ^[6] Here Fr. Chaumonot built a chapel for Hurons. ^[7]

Following his third and final trip to the shrine of Loreto in Italy, Chaumonot was cured of a terrible headache and in gratitude, the colony was placed under the patronage of Our Lady of the Annunciation, but commonly called Lorette. ^{[7] [8]}.

After a few decades the Hurons left and French settlers took over the land. ^[9]

In 1697, the Hurons left in search of better land for hunting and fishing. Thereafter the place became known as Vieille-Lorette ("Old Loreto") or Ancienne-Lorette ("Former Loreto"), because they christened the new place where they settled as Nouvelle-Lorette ("New Loreto") or Jeune-Lorette ("Young Loreto"), which roughly corresponds to Loretteville today.

A year later in 1698, the Parish of Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation was established. ^[8]

1691 Retirement

Father Chaumonot retired in 1691 to the Jesuit College at Quebec where he died at the age of 82 years. He had served 52 years in his ministries. ^[4]

1693 Death

He died February 21, 1693.^[3]

Notes

Fichier origine

CHAUMONOT, Pierre-Joseph-Marie (b: Pierre) 240861

Statut: Religieux

Date de naissance: 09-03-1611

Lieu d'origine: Ste-Colombe-sur-Seine (St-Laurent) (Côte-d'Or) 21545

Parents: Clément CHAUMONOT et Jehanne...

Première mention au pays: 1639

Occupation à l'arrivée: Jésuite

Décès ou inhumation: Québec, 21-02-1693

Remarques: Il est missionnaire chez les Hurons.^[10][11]

Sources

1. ↑ baptism image Fichier
2. ↑ Wikipédia (français), https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph-Marie_Chaumonot. Accessed August 5, 2016
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Wikipedia. Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph-Marie_Chaumonot. Accessed August 5, 2016
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Surprenant,André. “Chaumonot, Pierre-Joseph-Marie”, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003, accessed June 11, 2014. Cited in Wikipedia.
5. ↑ The Encyclopedia of Canada, W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 41. Cited in Wikipedia.
6. ↑ L'Ancienne Lorette. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Ancienne-Lorette,_Quebec
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1}
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} "L'Ancienne-Lorette (ville)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2010-04-09. Cited in Wikipedia, L'Ancienne Lorette
9. ↑ L'Ancienne-Lorette is a city in central Quebec, Canada. It is a suburb of and an enclave within Quebec City. It was merged with Quebec City on January 1, 2002 as part of the 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec, but after a 2004 referendum it was reconstituted as a separate city on January 1, 2006. www.lancienne-lorette.org
10. ↑ CNF, p. 177; DBC, vol. 1, p. 210 ; DBCCF, vol. 1, p. 117
11. ↑ Fichier Pierre Chaumonot 2017 Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie//Québec Federation of Genealogical Societies