Holy Family High School - Achillean Yearbook (Auburn, NY)

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Present Holy Family School THF FIRST NYHITIC TICACHICRS IN 'FHICAUHURN DISTRICT were nndotlhtedly the Catholic Missionaries who came in the middle of the seventeenth century to spread the Gos- pel of Christ among' the Indians. XYhile the primary purpose of their dwelling and their activities among the natives was a religious one, it is heyond doulmt that the early ,lesuits taught in addition to religion, lessons of culture and civilization. Such was their custom, as is shown hy the letters and reports made hy them to their Superiors, which are still extant, and hy their practise elsewhere. The first white resident of the country of the Cayneas was Father Rene Menard. S.,l., to whose memory the hridge over the Seneca River on the main highway he- tween :Xuhurn and Seneca Falls is dedicated. He was sent in N150 with a numher of fellow ,lesuits to hegin work among the lroquois of what is now New York State. 'l'he headquarters of the mission were located among the Unondagas. From that center Missionaries went out to the various trihes of the Iroquois Confed- eracy. Father Menard, accompanied hy Father Chau- monot, came to the Cayugas at their own request in the late summer of 1056. He settled among them in their principal village, located near the present day Mapleton. south of I-Xuhurn, where the Indians under Chief Saon- ehiagua lvuilt him a C-hapel. For ahout two years Father Menard lahored among the Cayugas of this and of other villages of the 'l'rihe. liventually in 1658 he with all the wther Missionaries among the Iroquois were recalled and ilulieeil to rttire tu Canada on account of a threatened massacre of all the French. made known hy a Christian Indian. llnring his settlement of approximately Iwi: years in the Indian village of fioi-o-onguen Father Menard nn- douhtedly visited and taught in the other nearliy villages nl. the Cayugas. Consequently he can legitimately he eonsidered the first white teacher of the district. .Xml as thtre was a small Cayuga village at the ford over the Uwasco River near the site of the present ,Xnhurn Prison, Father Menard may have evangelized the In- dians of that village. In this case he wotild have heen the original white teacher not only of the .-Xuhurn district hut even of the confines of Holy Family Parish. .-Xfter their withdrawal from the Iroquois country in l6S8, tl1e Jesuit Fathers. notwithstanding repeated invi- tations and pleas on the part of the treacherous Iroquois, did not return until l668. Their efforts to Christianize the Iroquois were then renewed in their various cantons. The mission to the Cayugas was undertaken hy one of France's nohlemen, Father Stephen de Carheil. Arriving at Goi-o-ougen in November lfmo8, he erected a Chapel and dedicated it to St. joseph. Ifnfortunately he was after a few years attacked hy sickness and he was com- pelled in lo7l to retire for a time for medical treatment in Canada. 'l'o the priest. who replaced him during that period of ahout two years in the Cayuga Mission, name- ly, Father Peter Raffeix, we are indehted not only for a tnap hut also for the first written description of the country between Owasco and Cayuga Lakes. The latter is contained in a letter, dated June 24, 1672, which may he found in the Collection of ,lesuit Reports tRe- lationesj for that year, On the return of Father de Carheil frotll Canada, he resumed charge of the Chapel at Goi-o-ougen, of the one dedicated to St. Stephen near the northern end of Cayuga Lake, and that of St. Rene, which was located on the Seneca River, prohahly a little north of the present village of Montezuma. Father de Carheil was a very learned teacher and there are still in existence in Canadian archives manuscripts in his own handwriting. Iiventually he and all the other French Missionaries were ohliged to retire from the Iroquois country when it was taken over hy lfngland. A large numher of the Cayuga Indians, who had hecome Chris- tians, followed them to Canada where many of their descendants live as good Catholics at the present time. lviyflil lv't'1't'rt'ml .llou.vt'y1uor lfilxcttrtl J. liyrne.

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