Nicholas Point;, was a French Catholic priest, artist, and member of the Society of Jesus.
12 Facts About Nicholas Point
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Nicholas Point is known primarily for the drawings and watercolors he created during his missionary work in the mid-19th century among the Native American peoples in the northwestern United States.
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When Nicholas Point was thirteen, his father's death forced him to take work at a lawyer's office.
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Nicholas Point arrived at St Mary's College in Kentucky in June 1836.
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Nicholas Point served as the college's first rector until 1840.
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Nicholas Point was chosen by his superiors to join an expedition to found a mission among the Bitterroot Salish people in what is Montana.
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Nicholas Point designed the settlement, St Mary's Mission, after the pattern of Jesuit missions in Paraguay.
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Nicholas Point traveled extensively among the Plateau tribes in the Pacific Northwest.
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In 1847, Nicholas Point left the Pacific Northwest region and traveled to the Jesuit mission at Sandwich in the Province of Canada, where his brother Pierre was the prior.
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In 1848 Nicholas Point became the prior of the Holy Cross mission on Manitoulin Island.
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Nicholas Point spent his last years organizing his writings and artworks into a memoir, Recollections of the Rocky Mountains.
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Nicholas Point died there on 3 July 1868, and was buried in the crypt of the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Quebec.