Lights Out in the Choir Loft
The skies were very overcast, but enough light came through the stained glass windows of the darkened choir loft of historic St. Anne Church, Mackinac Island. This building dates from 1874, and is a Registered Michigan Historic Site. The parish dates much further back, as the church celebrated it's 300th anniversary in 1992.
My wife, the family genealogist, has traced my lineage to my 6th great-grandfather, Jean Baptiste Brillant a surgeon/medic at Fort Mackinac. In July 1752, he married Franciose Itagisse Chretian, a member of the Ojibwa (Chippewa) tribe, at St. Anne Church which was then located at Fort Mackinac. We purchased a disk at the church, containing church records from 1695-1888, which documents my 6th great-grandfather. So, it was kind of an eerie feeling to sit in the darkened church, pondering my ancestors who roamed the Island so long ago.
Lights Out in the Choir Loft
The skies were very overcast, but enough light came through the stained glass windows of the darkened choir loft of historic St. Anne Church, Mackinac Island. This building dates from 1874, and is a Registered Michigan Historic Site. The parish dates much further back, as the church celebrated it's 300th anniversary in 1992.
My wife, the family genealogist, has traced my lineage to my 6th great-grandfather, Jean Baptiste Brillant a surgeon/medic at Fort Mackinac. In July 1752, he married Franciose Itagisse Chretian, a member of the Ojibwa (Chippewa) tribe, at St. Anne Church which was then located at Fort Mackinac. We purchased a disk at the church, containing church records from 1695-1888, which documents my 6th great-grandfather. So, it was kind of an eerie feeling to sit in the darkened church, pondering my ancestors who roamed the Island so long ago.