Jean de quen biography
Jean de quen biography
Jean de quen biography death.
QUEN, JEAN DE, priest, Jesuit, missionary, discoverer of Lac Saint-Jean, founder of the Saguenay missions, superior of the missions of the Jesuits of New France, annalist; baptized 11 Feb.
1602 at Amiens (Picardy), son of Mathieu de Quen and of Anthoinette de la Vuarde; d. 8 Oct. 1659 at Quebec.
Jean de Quen entered the Society of Jesus on 13 Sept. 1620.
Jean de quen biography wikipedia
After his noviciate, three years of philosophy in Paris, one year as a regent and three years of theology at Clermont, one year as a regent at Amiens, and his third probationary year in Belgium, he taught for three years at the Collège in Eu, and then left for Canada.
He arrived at Quebec on 17 Aug. 1635.
He was first employed as a teacher at the college in Quebec, which opened its doors in 1635; he soon went to the fixed mission at Sillery, and returned to Quebec, where he was responsible for ministering to the parish of Notre-Dame-de-la-Recouvrance.
In 1640 he went back to Sillery, and c