protestations of certain members of the clergy: “I have not allowed anyone to give me as a reason that it is very hard to pray for one’s enemies. . . . They are our masters, and we owe them what we

, and he was especially helpful to the loyalist clergy. Jacob Bailey* was one of those who bore testimony to his kindness in letters to the

contribution to the coming of French Sulpicians to Canada, which had been his predecessor’s dream. The persecutions suffered by the clergy during the French revolution had scattered them widely, in

holidays. That was going too far. Some of the clergy and lay people in Quebec, Montreal, and rural areas publicly expressed disapproval of the bishop of Capsa; the Montreal Gazette commented

the activities of the administrators and embezzlers at the end of the French régime bluntly, and he also attacks the clergy, particularly Abbé Le Loutre, François

years having driven most of the settled clergy away. Alline’s New Light churches were organized around his insistence upon the crisis conversion, and partially reflected his beliefs. Only those who had

, Adhémar and De Lisle went to Paris at the beginning of 1784 with a view to recruiting priests for the Canadian clergy. In order to concentrate their efforts on the recruiting question, the two delegates had

/21, ff.1–394 (mfm copies in PAC and PANS); Ind. 5435, 5438. St Paul’s Church (Halifax), “Record of burials performed by the clergy of St Paul’s Church gathered from loose memoranda, and

with the clergy of France,” who by a contract signed 1 June 1742 guaranteed the sisters at Louisbourg an annual income of 1,600 livres, all of which the king confirmed by letters

number of remarkable cures he effected there.” Sullivan, a devout Roman Catholic, also had the confidence of the clergy. On 7 March 1724 two

as courteously as possible, asking them to spare human lives and the churches.” It can be said that a great majority of the clergy kept to that line of conduct. Of the 194 priests who comprised

, and processions, and thus asserted his authority over all the clergy on Île Royale. In 1754 Bishop Pontbriand confirmed him in his functions as vicar general, which he exercised henceforth alone. The

received when he presented himself at the seminary of Quebec on 28 Aug. 1726. For some years the Canadian-born clergy had been complaining, not without reason, of being systematically kept out of

considered too poor to support a secular clergy. Mézy’s greatest deficiencies as financial commissary were in precisely those areas of bookkeeping and

Lower Town. Lajus commended himself to the populace and the clergy as a responsible and Christian individual. He joined the religious confraternity of

practice he had to depend upon the SPG. Newfoundlanders, like colonists everywhere, would not pay for clergy whom missionary societies would provide free of charge. Kilpatrick’s initial efforts at

addressed to the clergy and population of Montreal. He ordered an adoration of the cross during a general procession of the faithful from the church of Notre-Dame de Montréal to the Bonsecours chapel. Later

Quebec chapter. Like many other members of the clergy and society in New France, Gaufin had openly adopted a position in this conflict, which had rapidly

. In this capacity, in 1711 he re-established the garrison, which had been done away with four years earlier, and in 1712 he recommended giving the secular clergy charge of the parish there, which was

Poulet*, whom the bishop had had expelled from the diocese the preceding year. In it he denounced and railed at the Jesuits: for their relentless opposition to the secular clergy (which they accused