- Jean Le Sueur
Jean Le Sueur (c. 1598 –
29 November 1668 ), also known as "Abbé Saint-Sauveur" was a priest from France who arrived at the colony ofNew France in 1634 on the same ship asJean Bourdon .The arrival of these two people is important to their history because a friendship developed that affected both their lives. Bourdon received a number of parcels of land as payments for various services. One, a fief that he named Saint-Jean, was given to him by Governor
Charles de Montmagny in 1639 and he later built a chapel there for his friend, Abbé Le Sueur.In 1650, Le Sueur moved to the site where the chapel was being built. It became the parish church for Sainte-Geneviève hill, under the ministry of Abbé Le Sueur, who also became the tutor to the Bourdon progeny. The chapel was even mentioned in a 1660 dispatch to "
the Holy See " by Bishop Laval.External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=429 Biography at "the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
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