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Father Rasle's War
Sebastian Rāsle (Rāle) was baptized on 28 January 1652 and joined the
Society of Jesus on 24 September 1675. He arrived at Quebec 13 Oct. 1689, and lived with the native Americans in Illinois (1692-95) and at Becancour (1705-11) in Canada. He later lived
among the Abenakis for whom he established the first
school ever in what is now the State of Maine. Rāsle was killed at his mission in
Norridgewock, Maine, on 23 August 1724 as he defended his Abenaki people. After his death the war known as Father Rāsle's War started. It lasted for two years in which the native Americans lost their lands with English victory.
Read the books!
Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 1: Pioneers of
France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth
Century, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, The Old Regime in
Canada (Library of America)
by David Levin (Editor), Francis Parkman
Baxter, James Phinney, The Pioneers of New France in New England, with Contemporary Letters and Documents
Black Robe on the Kennebec Calvert, Mary
Charland, Thomas, "Rale, Sebastien," Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Convers, Francis, "Life of Rev. Sebastian Rale," Library of American
Biography
Battles
° The Death of Father Rasle - a lithograph
° Stained Glass Window of Martyrdom of Father Rasle
Biographies
° Father Rasle (a biography)
° Sebastian Rale -- a biography
Databases
Sebastian Rasle's letter to his nephew 15 October 1722 and to his brother on 12 October 1723 in The Jesuit Relations
THE CAUSE OF SEBASTIAN RĀLE (1652-1724)
Plaque Erected by International Order of Alhambra on 23 August 1999
(Vestibule of St. Sebastian Church, Madison, Maine)
SEBASTIAN RĀLE (1652-1724)
A NATIVE OF PONTALIER, FRANCE, WHERE HE
WAS BAPTIZED ON 28 JANUARY 1652, SEBASTIAN RĀLE
WAS AN INCOMPARABLE MISSIONARY WHO CARED FOR
THE NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE KENNEBEC RIVER
VALLEY FOR MOST OF HIS PRIESTLY LIFE. RECOGNIZING
THE 23RD OF AUGUST 1999 AS THE 275TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE SAINTLY MARTYRDOM OF THIS MOST FAMOUS
JESUIT OF COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND, WE HAVE DECLARED
THE SITE OF HIS GRAVE AND THIS CHURCH OF HIS PATRON'
SAINT NATIONAL CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SITES.
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