Pierre Bailloquet (14 October 1612 – 7 June 1692) was a Jesuit missionary to the

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people of Canada. Born in

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, Bailloquet entered studies with the Jesuits at eighteen and after

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taught for some time in France. He arrived in

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in 1647 and spent forty-five years as a missionary from

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. It was a life of great hardships and dangers. He died in his eightieth year after sixty-one years in the religious life.

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People from Saintes, Charente-Maritime 1612 births 1692 deaths 17th-century French Jesuits Jesuit missionaries in New France French Roman Catholic missionaries {{RC-clergy-stub