Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Pierre Bailloquet Missionary among
the Indians of Canada, b. 1612, at Saintes, France; d. in the
Ottawa missions, 7 June, 1692. He entered the Society of Jesus
at Bordeaux, 20 November, 1631, and after ordination was sent as
a missionary to Canada. He arrived at Quebec in the summer of
1647, and for forty-five years labored and suffered among the
savage tribes that roamed the vast territory extending from
Acadia in the east to the lands of the Illinois in the far west.
The hardships and privations he endured are well-nigh
incredible. According to the "Relations", he frequently had "the
earth for bed and mattress, and strips of bark for a palace,
which was filled less with air than with smoke"; and owing to
his zeal he was often in danger of being tomahawked or burned at
the stake by the savages. When almost eighty years of age and
stricken with grievous infirmity, he dragged himself across the
snow for leagues to go to the huts of those who were unable to
come to him. He died in h