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Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot was born on March 09, 1611 in Châtillon-sur-Seine, France, the son of peasants of Burgundy.
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Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot was born on March 09, 1611 in Châtillon-sur-Seine, France, the son of peasants of Burgundy.
Chaumonot received the good education under his uncle who was a priest. He studied Latin and music and showed much aptitude, but as a youthful prank he stole money from his uncle, ran away, and became a vagabond.
On May 18, 1632, Chaumonot was received as a novice in the Society of Jesus at Rome. He then took the names Joseph Marie, and is usually spoken of as Father Joseph Chaumonot. A fellow student showed him one of the Jesuit Relations, whereupon he greatly desired to become a missionary in New France. This wish was granted, and on August 1, 1639, he arrived at Quebec, and immediately set out for Huronia on the shores of Georgian Bay.
There he evinced great ability in learning the Indian language, and soon became so useful that he was sent to the Petun tribe with Father Daniel, and to that of the Neutrals with Brebeuf. Upon the destruction of the Huron missions by the Iroquois, Chaumonot escaped martyrdom, and came with the fugitive Christian Hurons to Quebec, where in 1650 they were given a grant of the Isle d’Orleans.
In 1655 Chaumonot was chosen to go with Dablon to open a mission among the Iroquois, who professed to be ready to receive the “black robes. ” There he found many captive Christian Hurons and ministered to them. The sites of some of the villages where he ministered are now marked: at Indian Hill, Pompey, New York, where he held the first mass; near Mud Creek, Ontario County, where the Hurons dwelt; on Cayuga Lake, where he preached in 1656 to the Cayuga tribe.
The mission to the Iroquois was abandoned in 1658, the colonists and missionaries escaping death by flight to Canada. Thereafter Chaumonot dwelt among the Hurons, who had been driven from Isle d’Orleans, and lived successively at Beauport, Notre Dame de Sainte Foy, and Lorette. This last settlement was named at the request of Chaumonot, who had always had a strong devotion for the Casa Loretto in Italy. In all he lived with the refugee Hurons over forty years, with the interval of the Iroquois mission 1655-1658, and two years as chaplain (1663 - 1664) at Fort Richelieu.
In 1688, at the request of his superior, he wrote his autobiography. He also compiled a Huron grammar, and several sacred writings for the Hurons. In 1692 he retired to the house of his order in Quebec, where he died, much beloved and respected.
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Chaumonot served as a member of the Society of Jesus.
Chaumonot was a simple, naive, unambitious man. He made an ideal missionary, patiently enduring hardships of every kind, counting all his afflictions to the glory of God and the Holy Family.
