Linda Carol Jones. The Shattered Cross: French Catholic Missionaries on the Mississippi River, 1698–1725
Year: 2022
Type: book-review
Abstract: Linda Carol Jones has written a carefully designed and empathetically executed study of five missionaries from the Séminaire de Québec, a Roman Catholic community of priests founded in 1663 by New France’s first bishop, Francois de Lavalle. The five missionaries—Fathers Foucault, Bergier, de Montigny, Saint-Cosme, and Davion—labored between 1698 and 1725 among Indigenous peoples of the Mississippi Valley, including the Tamarois, Tunicas, Tanesas, Natchez, and Quapaws. Jones takes seriously the missionaries’ purposes and labors while also illuminating the social and spiritual worlds of the Native peoples, worlds the missionaries signally failed to transform.Jones artfully pieces together archival sources (many
Source: Journal of Jesuit Studies
Author: Catherine O’Donnell
Institution: Arizona State University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4206214992