White Hawk
07-19-2006, 09:57 PM
Quote from book Beyond 1492, Encounters in Colonial North America by James Axtell.
"Catholic missionaries were often good for a laugh. Their haloed tonsures, effeminate dress, and lack of interest in women all touched the Huron funny bone. To judge from Gabriel Sagard's confessed discomfort, the "continual importunity and requests" of Huron women and girls to bed and wed the Recollect friars must have been a source of good fun on cold evenings around thr fire. We know that teaching the Jesuits to speak a decent -or indecent- sentence was. Micmac informants "often ridiculed, instead of teaching us," the Blackrobes complained, "and sometimes palmed off on us indecent words, which we went about innocently preaching for beautiful sentences from the Gospels."
"Catholic missionaries were often good for a laugh. Their haloed tonsures, effeminate dress, and lack of interest in women all touched the Huron funny bone. To judge from Gabriel Sagard's confessed discomfort, the "continual importunity and requests" of Huron women and girls to bed and wed the Recollect friars must have been a source of good fun on cold evenings around thr fire. We know that teaching the Jesuits to speak a decent -or indecent- sentence was. Micmac informants "often ridiculed, instead of teaching us," the Blackrobes complained, "and sometimes palmed off on us indecent words, which we went about innocently preaching for beautiful sentences from the Gospels."