- Récollets
The Récollets ("English: Recollects") were a French branch of the Roman Catholic order, the
Franciscan s ("Latin: Ordo Fratrum Minorum"), first established inFrance about 1570. According to one historian, "Recollection-houses are, strictly speaking, those monasteries to which friars desirous of devoting themselves to prayer and penance can withdraw to consecrate their lives to spiritual recollection". The French Récollets had 11 provinces with 2534cloister s by the late 18th century. The order was suppressed during theFrench Revolution .Canada
The Récollets were important as missionaries to the French colonies in
Canada , although they were displaced there by theJesuits . The first Récollet missionaries arrived atQuebec City , fromRouen onJune 2 ,1615 . The Récollet fathers are said to have brewed the first beer in New France in 1620. They leftNew France in 1629 but returned in 1670. After the British conquest, the order was prohibited from recruiting new members. The last Canadian Récollet Brother Louis died in 1848 atQuebec City .Famous "Récollets"
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Louis Hennepin
*Gabriel Sagard
*Christopher Maspara References
*cite book
last = Jouve
first = Odoric-Marie
authorlink =
coauthors =
year = 1996
title = Dictionnaire biographique des Récollets missionaires en Nouvelle-France, 1615-1645, 1670-1849, province franciscaine Saint-Joseph du Canada
publisher = Bellarmin
location = Saint Laurent, Quebec
language = French
id = ISBN 2-89007-815-9
pages = 903External links
* [http://www.ewtn.com/padrepio/franciscan/ofm.htm Order of Friars Minor - see General History of the Order Second Period (1517-1909) (3) The Recollects]
* [http://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/fr/ma_ville/toponymie/rues/recollets.shtml Rue des Récollets, Québec]
* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/explorers/h24-1430-e.html Black Robes from the Library and Archives Canada website]
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