Converting the sauvage: Jesuit and Montagnais in seventh-century new France

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

PETER A. GODDARD*

The name sauvage' gives rise to so very disparaging an idea of those who bear it, that many people in Europe have thought that it is impossible to make true Christians of them. But such persons do not reflect that God died for the barbarian as well as for the Jew and that his spirit breathes where it wills. Good trees bear good fruits.... not only are true Christians among these sauvage peoples, but also many more in proportion than in your civilized Europe.2

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