Joseph Marcoux
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Joseph Marcoux (b. 16 March 1791; d. 29 May 1855) was a Canadian Catholic missionary among the Iroquois.
[edit] 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 Caughnawaga (Sault-St-Louis). He died of typhoid fever, at that time epidemic among the Iroquois.
[edit] 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.
[edit] References
- Appleton, Cyclopaedia of American Biography, s. v.;
- Tanguay, Rep. general du clergé canadien
This article incorporates text from the entry Joseph Marcoux in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
