Auriesville, New York
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Auriesville is a hamlet in the northern part of New York State, 41 miles west of Albany, the state capital. It was the site of Ossernenon, a Mohawk village where French Jesuits established a mission.
The National Shrine of the North American Martyrs at Auriesville, New York; the Mohawk River is in the foreground.
Isaac Jogues
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Isaac Jogues was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the first European to name Lake George, calling
Auriesville, New York
…raid in retribution for the killing of French missionaries, after which its exact locus became lost. French Jesuit missionaries Saint René Goupil, Saint Isaac Jogues, and Saint Jean de Lalande, were martyred by the Mohawk at Ossernenon: Goupil in 1642 and Jogues and LaLande in 1646. Ossernenon was located south of…
Portrait by Donald Guthrie McNab, 1895
Mosaic of Jogues in the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis
Sculpture of Jogues on a door to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City
Jogues, along with the other seven Canadian Martyrs, on a stained-glass window in St. John's Church in Omaha, Nebraska