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
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North American Martyrs
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
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
Jean de Brébeuf
…captured when a group of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) raided a Wendat village (referred to in French as Saint-Louis). Together with Wendat captives, the missionaries were ritually tortured and killed on 16 March 1649. Afterwards, his heart was eaten by Haudenosaunee tribesmen. Brébeuf was beatified in 1925 and with…
Martyr's Shrine, Midland, Ontario