Canadian Martyrs
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The Canadian Martyrs, also known as the North American Martyrs, were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. They were ritually tortured and killed on various dates in the mid-17
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Martyr's Shrine, Midland, Ontario
Jean de Brébeuf
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Jean de Brébeuf was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Wendat for the rest of his life, except for a few years in France from 1629 to 16
Canadian Martyrs
…peace between the French and the Mohawk. Other Jesuit missionaries were killed by the Mohawk and martyred in the following years: Antoine Daniel (1648), Jean de Brébeuf (1649), Noël Chabanel (1649), Charles Garnier (1649), and Gabriel Lalemant (1649). All were canonized in 1930 as the Canadian Martyrs, also known as…
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Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant stand ready for boiling water/fire "Baptism" and flaying by the Haudenosaunee in 1649.
Gravesite of Brébeuf and Lalemant in Sainte-Marie among the Hurons