INSCRIPTIONS ON MEMORIALS IN THE AREA OF THE MISSION

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Monument Erected by Second Bishop of Boston in 1833
(St. Sebastian Cemetery, Norridgewock, ME)

REV'S. SEBASTIANUS RASLES, NATIONE GALLUS, E SOCIETATE JESU MISSONARIUS, ALIQUOT ANNOS ILLIONOIS ET HURONIBUS PRIMUM EVANGELANS, DEINDE PER 34 ANNOS ABENAQUIS, FIDE ET CHARITATE CHRISTI VERUS APOSTOLUS, PERICULIS ARMORUM INTERRITUS, SE PRO SUIS OVIBUS MOMRI PARATUM SAEPIUS TESTIFICANS, INTER ARMA ET CAEDES AC PAGI NANRANTSOUACK ET ECCLESESIAE SUAE RUINAS, HOC IN IPSO LOCO, CEDIDIT TANDEM OPTIMUS PASTOR , DIE 23 AUGUSTII, ANN. DOM. 1724.
IPSI ET FILIIS SUIS IN CHRISTO DEFUNCTIS, MONUMENTUM POSUIT BENEDICTUS FENWICK, EPISCOPUS BOSTONIENSIS, DEDICAVITQUE DIE 23 AUGUSTII, A. D. 1833. A. M. D. G.

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Memorial Erected by Margaret Coffe Moore Chapter, D. A. Ar. in 1926
(Side of Road Outside of St. Sebastian Cemetry, Madison, ME)

SITE OF NORRIDGEWOCK INDIAN VILLAGE DESTROYED BY THE ENGLISH IN 1724.
OLD POINT MONUMENT BEYOND COMMEMORATES THE DEATH OF
FATHER RASLES AND INDIANS IN MASSACRE.

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Plaque Erected by International Order of Alhambra on 23 August 1999
(Vestibule of St. Sebastian Church, Madison, ME)

SEBASTIAN RÂLE (1652-1724)
A NATIVE OF PONTALIER, FRANCE, WHERE HE
WAS BAPTIZED ON 28 JANUARY 1652, SEBASTIAN RÂLE
WAS AN INCOMPARABLE MISSIONARY WHO CARED FOR
THE NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE KENNEBEC RIVER
VALLEY FOR MOST OF HIS PRIESTLY LIFE. RECOGNIZING
THE 23RD OF AUGUST 1999 AS THE 275TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE SAINTLY MARTYRDOM OF THIS MOST FAMOUS
JESUIT OF COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND, WE HAVE DECLARED
THE SITE OF HIS GRAVE AND THIS CHURCH OF HIS PATRON'
SAINT NATIONAL CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SITES.

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Marker  Dedicated by the Daughters of the American Revolution on December 16, 2000, under Mrs. Claude C. Tukey, State Regent, 1998-2001:
(Inside St. Sebastian Cemetery, Norridgewock, ME)

FATHER RASLE'S  SCHOOL AND MISSION
FOR NATIVE AMERICANS

ON THIS SITE, PRIOR TO 1705,
STOOD THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN
SCHOOL IN THE REGION NOW KNOWN
AS THE STATE OF MAINE.
THIS SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED BY
FATHER SEBASTIAN RASLE, A MISSIONARY,
PRIEST, AND TEACHER IN THE KENNEBEC
RIVER AREA FOR THIRTY YEARS.
FATHER RASLE'S ACTIVITIES INCLUDED THE
PREPARTION OF AN ABENAKI DICTINARY.