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Cardinal Taschereau, archbishop of Quebec, whose sacerdotal jubilee has been drawing throngs of the faithful to Quebec,belonges to one ofthe most distinguished families in French Canada, is Eminence Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, was born at Sainte-Marie de Ta Beauce on the 17th of February 1820, and is à son of the late Ion. Thomas Taschereau, à judee of the King's Bench, who died in 1832, his grandfather having been the Ion, Gabriel-Elzear Taschereau, à member of the old Legislative assembly of the pre-union period. [is mother was à daughter of the on, Jean- Antoine Panct, speaker of the first assembly of this province. In 1836, after pursuine courses of study at both the seminaries of Quebec, the future Arehbishop and Cardinal visited Rome, in company with the late Abbé Folmes, and in the following vear received the tonsure from the hands of Mer Piatti in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Returning to Canada, he resumed his studies and on the 10th of Neptember 1842, was ordained priest in the chureh of his native village, Mer Turgeon, His destined predecessor in the Kee of Quebec, being the officiant. During theterrible ship fever, Father Taschereauu Was among the most active of the Quebec clergv in reheving the distress, sparing himself, in the presence ot the seourge, noither toils nor perils, Ie has been SUCCESSIVE!\ professo of thcoloey in the Son v, director ot the Petit-Sémninaire, and of the Grcoud-Séminaire,

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