Joseph Marcoux

Joseph Marcoux

Joseph Marcoux (16 March 1791 – 29 May 1855) was a Canadian Catholic missionary among the Iroquois. Fluent in Mohawk, Marcoux was also known as Tharoniakanere, "the one who looks up to the sky".

Life

He was ordained 12 January 1813, and spent the remaining forty-two years of his life evangelizing the Iroquois, first at St. Regis and later at Kahnawake (Sault-St-Louis). He died of typhoid fever, at that time epidemic among the Iroquois.

Works

He wrote Iroquois grammar and a French–Iroquois dictionary. For his church and schools, he translated into Iroquois François de Ligny's Histoire de la vie de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, and published in their language a collection of prayers, hymns, and canticles (1852), a catechism (1854), a calendar of Catholic ritual, and a number of sermons.

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Joseph Marcoux". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.  The entry cites:

• • Appleton, Cyclopaedia of American Biography, s. v.;
  • Tanguay, Rep. general du clergé Canadien
  • Devine, E.J., Historic Caughnawaga. Montreal: Messenger Press

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

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Name	Marcoux, Joseph
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Date of birth	16 March 1791
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Date of death	29 May 1855
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