Vente pierre vignal biography

VIGNAL (Vignar, Vignard, Vignart), GUILLAUME, priest, Sulpician, chaplain to the Ursulines of Quebec, bursar of the seminary of Saint-Sulpice at Montreal; b. c. 1604 (L. Le Jeune) or 1615 in the diocese of Périgueux (O. Maurault); d. 27 Oct. 1661.

Little is known of Vignal’s life before 1648.

According to Le Jeune, he may have been ordained a priest about 1628. According to O. Maurault, he may have come to Canada as a secular priest to serve missions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In any case, on 13 Sept.

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1648, we find him at Quebec with the title of chaplain to the Ursulines, as replacement for the prior, René Chartier, who had returned to France the preceding year. In return for an annual payment from the Ursulines of 100 francs, he concerned himself with various tasks on the community’s behalf, one of them being to clear land on their Saint-Joseph farm.

In 1653 he received from Louis d’Ailleboust an acre of land w