Portrait of Father Pierre Gibault

Portrait of Father Pierre Gibault

Fort Sackville (Ind.)
Vincennes (Ind.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783

Father Pierre Gibault was born in Montreal, Canada in 1737. Gibault was thirty years old when he was ordained a priest on March 19, 1768. Within months, he was sent into the Illinois country as a missionary for the isolated frontier French settlements. Gibault's missionary career lasted over thirty years. Gibault died on August 16, 1802 at New Madrid, Illinois.

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A Commemorative History of the George Rogers Clark Bicentennial Exhibit (Indianapolis: Indiana State Museum Society, 1976), p. 53.
http://www.in.gov/history/2991.htm

Indiana State Library

1976

Indiana State Library

Public Domain

Original: Painting; Digital: GIF

Still Image