Note 583 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

The contemporary account of Marquette’s death is given in the Relation of that year, and in the “Récit de la mort du P. Marquette,” as published in the Mission du Canada. Cf. Shea’s Charlevoix, iii. 182, note; but Charlevoix’ account varies, and Parkman says it is a traditionary one, and that traces of the tradition were not long since current (La Salle, p. 72). Cf. “Romance and Reality of the Death of Marquette, and the Recent Discovery of his Remains,” by Shea, in the Catholic World, xxvi. 267, and “Father Marquette’s Bones” in the Canadian Antiquarian, January, 1878. In 1877 some human bones were found on the supposed site of the mission chapel at St. Ignace. Of Marquette’s successors in the Illinois mission, see Shea’s Catholic Missions, App., and Wisconsin Historical Society’s Collections, iii. 110.