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Photographer: Joel Seewald
Taken: August 18, 2019
Caption: Grave of Father Marquette Gravestone
Additional Description: The Latin text is inscribed on the gravestone. The text on the plaque at the base is nearly identical to the marker:
In memory of Rev. Father James Marquette, S.J., who died the eighteenth day of May MDCLXXV, at the age of thirty eight and was buried in this grave A.D. MDCLXXVII. R.I.P.
This monument was raised by the citizens of St. Ignace, A.D. MDCCCLXXXII.
Submitted: September 11, 2019, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p492794
File Size: 4.751 Megabytes

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