Benjamin Marie Petit (April 8, 1811 - February 10, 1839). A native of Rennes in Brittany, Petit was a Catholic missionary sent to the Potawatomi nation of Native Americans in Indiana in 1837. In 1838, when the United States forced the removal of a band of 859 Potawatomi from the vicinity of Plymouth, Indiana, to the present-day site of Osawatomie, Kansas, Petit accompanied them on most of the two-month march, now called the Potawatomi Trail of Death. Wikipedia
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Petit, a young Breton missionary. It is said that Petit was revered by the Indians because he had a mother-like spirit and that is why the Indians claimed him as their own and why he could do so much with them. www.nd.edu/~wcawley/corson/logchapel.htm