The cardinals and bishops who were then gathered at St. Denis for their great chapter, were in favour of the idea of sending the Recollets to their foreign missions, and promised to raise a fund for the maintenance of four monks, and the merchants of Rouen promised to maintain and convey at least six Recollets gratuitously.  The king issued letters for the future church of Canada.  The pope’s nuncio, Guido Bentivoglio, granted the requisite permission, in conformity with the pope’s wishes, but the bull establishing the church was only forwarded on May 20th, 1615.  The brief of Paul V granted to the Recollets the following privileges: 

“To receive all children born of believing and unbelieving parents, and all others of what condition soever they may be, who, after promising to keep and observe all that should be kept and observed by the faithful, will embrace the truth of the Christian and Catholic faith; to baptize even outside of the churches in case of necessity; to hear confessions of penitents, and after diligently hearing them, to impose a salutary penance according to their faults, and enjoin what should be enjoined in conscience, to loose and absolve them from all sentences of excommunication and other ecclesiastical pains and censures, as also from all sorts of crimes, excesses, and delicts; to administer the sacraments of the eucharist, marriage and extreme unction; to bless all kinds of vestments, vessels and ornaments when holy unction is not necessary; to dispense gratuitously new converts who have contracted or would contract marriage in any degree of consanguinity, or affinity whatever, except the first or second, or between ascending and descending, provided the women have not been carried off by force, and the two parties who have contracted or would contract be Catholics, and there be just cause as well for the marriages already contracted as for those desired to be contracted; to declare and pronounce the children born and issued of such marriages legitimate; to have an altar which they may decently carry, and thereon to celebrate in decent and becoming places where the convenience of a church shall be wanting.”

The Reverend Father Garnier de Chapouin, provincial of the province of St. Denis, appointed four monks as the founders of the future mission.  Their names were Father Denis Jamet, Jean d’Olbeau, Joseph Le Caron, and a brother named Pacifique du Plessis, who received orders to accompany them.  These four monks were all remarkable for their virtue and apostolic zeal.  Father Jamet was appointed commissary, and Father d’Olbeau was appointed his successor in the event of death.  The king granted them authority to build one or more convents in Canada, and to send for as many monks as were required.  It was impossible to send more than four of them during the first year.

On April 24th, 1615, the St. Etienne sailed from Honfleur, and one month later came to anchor at Tadousac.  On June 25th, Father d’Olbeau was able to say mass in a small chapel built at the foot of Mountain Hill, Quebec.