Marquette travels westward and in the spring…

March 1675 CE

Marquette travels westward and in the spring of 1675 celebrates a public mass at the Grand Village of the Illinois near Starved Rock.

He sets up the Mission of the Immaculate Conception, the first Christian mission in modern-day Illinois.

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Utica La Salle Illinois United States View →

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Jacques Marquette View → Louis Jolliet View →

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Illinois confederacy, or Illiniwek View → New France (French Colony) View → Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus View → France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View →

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