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By 1665 the seminary appeared to be reliably enough established, and Laval selected Bernières for this office. He was to hold it for four terms: 1665–72, 1673–83, 1685–88 and 1693–98, a total of 25 years. The seminary began to develop in stages: first as a school of theology (1663), then it became a
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corporation (1668), then a large corporation, supporting the clergy of the colony. As a frontier mission, sources of funding needed to be secured. The priests engaged in the ministry looked to the seminary for support, the seminary, in turn, relied upon the
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in 1665, as well as upon donations from monasteries and individuals back in France who wished to support the
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two months later, on 16 June, only to find that no residence had been provided for them, but they found temporary quarters. Bernières was appointed Laval's
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