Father Louis Hennepin, baptized Antoine was a Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollect order (French: "Récollets") and an explorer of the interior of North America. Hennepin was born in Ath, province of Hainaut, Belgium, but became French in 1659, when Béthune, the town where he lived, was captured by the army of Louis XIV of France. At the request of Louis XIV the Récollets sent four missionaries to New France in May 1675, … Wikipedia
HENNEPIN , LOUIS (baptized Antoine), priest, Recollet, missionary, explorer, historiographer; b. 12May1626 at Ath, in Belgium, son of Gaspard Hennepin, a butcher, and of Norbertine Leleu; d. c . 1705. www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34963
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