Marquette met with over 500 chiefs and, in the words of a Jesuit, Marquette "explained to them the principal mysteries of our religion, and the end for which he had come to their country; and especially he preached to them Christ crucified, for it was the very eve of the great day on which he died on the cross for them." | Marquette met with over 500 chiefs and, in the words of a Jesuit, Marquette "explained to them the principal mysteries of our religion, and the end for which he had come to their country; and especially he preached to them Christ crucified, for it was the very eve of the great day on which he died on the cross for them." |