First Mass

Fort Beauharnois, Minnesota

November 4, 1727

LocationFort Beauharnois
State/TerritoryMinnesota
CountyGoodhue
Modern DioceseSaint Paul
Historical DioceseDiocese of Quebec
DateNovember 4, 1727
PriestFrs. Michel Guignas and Nicholas de Gonnor, SJ
Religious OrderSociety of Jesus (Jesuits)
RiteRoman (Latin) Rite
ExpeditionRené Boucher's expedition and Chapel of St Michael the Archangel
Confidenceconfirmed

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From New Advent Encyclopedia
From New Advent Encyclopedia

Documentation

Notes

"We did not forget that the fourth day of the month [November] was the saint's day of the general. Holy Mass was said for him in the morning, and we were well prepared to celebrate the event in the evening, but the slowness of the pyrotechnists and the variableness of the weather led to the postponement of the celebration to the fourteenth of the same month, when some very beautiful rockets were shot off, and the air was made to resound with a hundred shouts of 'Vive le Roy' and 'Vive Charles de Beauharnois" Said on Feast of Saint Charles Borromeo Father Guignas wrote

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