Births on May 12

Louis Hennepin

Born on May 12, 1626

Louis Hennepin, Flemish priest and missionary (d. 1705)

Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M. baptized Antoine, (French pronunciation: [lwi ɛnpɛ̃]; 12 May 1626 – 5 December 1704) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollet order (French: Récollets) and an explorer of the interior of North America.

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Events on 1626

11 Feb

Afonso Mendes
Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia and Patriarch Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the Ethiopian Church, and Catholicism to be the state religion of Ethiopia.