Père Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme
Ordonné en 1690.
Michel's elder brother, Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme, was born on February 6, 1667 in Lauzon, son of Michel Buisson (Bisson), dit Saint-Cosme and Suzanne Delicérasse (de Lizeiras). He must be distinguished from his homonym who was born in 1660, in Québec, to Gervais Buisson and Marie Lereau, ordained in 1683.
Jean-François entered the Petit Séminaire in 1675 at the age of eight. He was ordained a priest on February 2, 1690, and became a member of the Seminary in Acadia. He was a parish priest in 1692-98, where he raised the recriminations of the civil chiefs. In 1698, he was recalled to direct him to the new missions which the Seminary, with the permission of Bishop de Saint-Vallier, was undertaking in the Mississippi. A five-and-a-half-month journey took him from Québec to the Arkansas. He soon returned to Chicago, with the intention of establishing a mission there. But then began a serious conflict of jurisdiction with the Jésuites, already missionaries of the region. It was necessary to yield, in order to have peace. M. Buisson settled with the Natchez. He was accused of having practiced travels more often than residence. He apologized for his difficulty with memory in the study of languages. We thought of recalling this too stirring missionary, a brave man, and whose letters are very picturesque. Was it not he who said one day that the missionary needed a good man with him to make the punch, adding, at least as to the meaning, that it is disagreeable for a priest to have to do that himself. This aggressive man had a tragic end. Despite an escort of savages, on his way to the Mobile, at the end of the year 1706, he was killed in present-day Louisiana, by plundering Indians named Chitimakas; An end similar to that of the Abbé Nicolas Foucault. Mississippi missions cost not only money but men.
(Bio translated from Biographies des prêtres agrégés du Séminaire de Québec)
Ordonné en 1690.
Michel's elder brother, Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme, was born on February 6, 1667 in Lauzon, son of Michel Buisson (Bisson), dit Saint-Cosme and Suzanne Delicérasse (de Lizeiras). He must be distinguished from his homonym who was born in 1660, in Québec, to Gervais Buisson and Marie Lereau, ordained in 1683.
Jean-François entered the Petit Séminaire in 1675 at the age of eight. He was ordained a priest on February 2, 1690, and became a member of the Seminary in Acadia. He was a parish priest in 1692-98, where he raised the recriminations of the civil chiefs. In 1698, he was recalled to direct him to the new missions which the Seminary, with the permission of Bishop de Saint-Vallier, was undertaking in the Mississippi. A five-and-a-half-month journey took him from Québec to the Arkansas. He soon returned to Chicago, with the intention of establishing a mission there. But then began a serious conflict of jurisdiction with the Jésuites, already missionaries of the region. It was necessary to yield, in order to have peace. M. Buisson settled with the Natchez. He was accused of having practiced travels more often than residence. He apologized for his difficulty with memory in the study of languages. We thought of recalling this too stirring missionary, a brave man, and whose letters are very picturesque. Was it not he who said one day that the missionary needed a good man with him to make the punch, adding, at least as to the meaning, that it is disagreeable for a priest to have to do that himself. This aggressive man had a tragic end. Despite an escort of savages, on his way to the Mobile, at the end of the year 1706, he was killed in present-day Louisiana, by plundering Indians named Chitimakas; An end similar to that of the Abbé Nicolas Foucault. Mississippi missions cost not only money but men.
(Bio translated from Biographies des prêtres agrégés du Séminaire de Québec)
Père Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme
Ordonné en 1690.
Michel's elder brother, Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme, was born on February 6, 1667 in Lauzon, son of Michel Buisson (Bisson), dit Saint-Cosme and Suzanne Delicérasse (de Lizeiras). He must be distinguished from his homonym who was born in 1660, in Québec, to Gervais Buisson and Marie Lereau, ordained in 1683.
Jean-François entered the Petit Séminaire in 1675 at the age of eight. He was ordained a priest on February 2, 1690, and became a member of the Seminary in Acadia. He was a parish priest in 1692-98, where he raised the recriminations of the civil chiefs. In 1698, he was recalled to direct him to the new missions which the Seminary, with the permission of Bishop de Saint-Vallier, was undertaking in the Mississippi. A five-and-a-half-month journey took him from Québec to the Arkansas. He soon returned to Chicago, with the intention of establishing a mission there. But then began a serious conflict of jurisdiction with the Jésuites, already missionaries of the region. It was necessary to yield, in order to have peace. M. Buisson settled with the Natchez. He was accused of having practiced travels more often than residence. He apologized for his difficulty with memory in the study of languages. We thought of recalling this too stirring missionary, a brave man, and whose letters are very picturesque. Was it not he who said one day that the missionary needed a good man with him to make the punch, adding, at least as to the meaning, that it is disagreeable for a priest to have to do that himself. This aggressive man had a tragic end. Despite an escort of savages, on his way to the Mobile, at the end of the year 1706, he was killed in present-day Louisiana, by plundering Indians named Chitimakas; An end similar to that of the Abbé Nicolas Foucault. Mississippi missions cost not only money but men.
(Bio translated from Biographies des prêtres agrégés du Séminaire de Québec)
Ordonné en 1690.
Michel's elder brother, Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme, was born on February 6, 1667 in Lauzon, son of Michel Buisson (Bisson), dit Saint-Cosme and Suzanne Delicérasse (de Lizeiras). He must be distinguished from his homonym who was born in 1660, in Québec, to Gervais Buisson and Marie Lereau, ordained in 1683.
Jean-François entered the Petit Séminaire in 1675 at the age of eight. He was ordained a priest on February 2, 1690, and became a member of the Seminary in Acadia. He was a parish priest in 1692-98, where he raised the recriminations of the civil chiefs. In 1698, he was recalled to direct him to the new missions which the Seminary, with the permission of Bishop de Saint-Vallier, was undertaking in the Mississippi. A five-and-a-half-month journey took him from Québec to the Arkansas. He soon returned to Chicago, with the intention of establishing a mission there. But then began a serious conflict of jurisdiction with the Jésuites, already missionaries of the region. It was necessary to yield, in order to have peace. M. Buisson settled with the Natchez. He was accused of having practiced travels more often than residence. He apologized for his difficulty with memory in the study of languages. We thought of recalling this too stirring missionary, a brave man, and whose letters are very picturesque. Was it not he who said one day that the missionary needed a good man with him to make the punch, adding, at least as to the meaning, that it is disagreeable for a priest to have to do that himself. This aggressive man had a tragic end. Despite an escort of savages, on his way to the Mobile, at the end of the year 1706, he was killed in present-day Louisiana, by plundering Indians named Chitimakas; An end similar to that of the Abbé Nicolas Foucault. Mississippi missions cost not only money but men.
(Bio translated from Biographies des prêtres agrégés du Séminaire de Québec)
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