Posted on 03/16/2023 8:02:34 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
It was on this date that the Jesuit missionary Saint Jean de Brébeuf was martyred by indigenous Iroquois near present-day Midland, Ontario.
Brebeuf was of Norman stock, kin to poet Georges de Brebeuf.
Ordained in 1622, Brebeuf soon decamped to the New World to Christianize the natives.
There he teamed up with another Jesuit missionary named Gabriel Lalemant and established the Sainte-Marie among the Hurons mission.
As the name advertises, this outpost aimed to minister to the Hurons (Wyandot); to that end, Brebeuf — who learned the local tongue well enough to write a catechism and a dictionary — composed the still-beloved Christmas song “Huron Carol”.
Brebeuf’s own missives recording Huron established him an energetic chronicler who has been styled Canada’s first serious ethnographer. For instance, Brebeuf on the POW treatment he saw the Huron dish out:
when they seize some of their enemies, they treat them with all the cruelty they can devise. Five or six days will sometimes pass in assuaging their wrath, and in burning them at a slow fire; and they are not satisfied with seeing their skins entirely roasted, — they open the legs, the thighs, the arms, and the most fleshy parts, and thrust therein glowing brands, or red-hot hatchets … After having at last brained a victim, if he was a brave man, they tear out his heart, roast it on the coals, and distribute it in pieces to the young men; they think that this renders them courageous … we hope, with the assistance of Heaven, that the knowledge of the true God will entirely banish from this Country such barbarity. (From the Jesuit Relations, volume 10)
Well … not just yet....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
You should read the full accoubt from one who escaped....much more graphic and horrid. Don’t tell the woke crowd of these sweet peoples way of loving foreigners.
A school named after Brebeuf had a mural depicting his death. They covered it because it was thought to be offensive to students of color. I guess the truth about the noble savages was too much for their delicate sensibilities to handle.
Was the polite way of saying their head was bashed in.
I weep, as a Lutheran against whom the Jesuits were organized, for how far the Jesuits have fallen. Dear Lord, in this season of Lent, lead Your people to repentance and purify them for Your service again.
All cultures are equal...
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Catholics had their savage moments, too, when it came to roasting Luther’s Augustinian associates. Unfortunately, savagery is common wherever there are humans being humans. The Huron were not unique in having a savage past :
Hendrik Voes and Johann van Esschen, on the other hand, received the complete treatment. On July 1, 1523, the two were arrayed in the full ecclesiastical regalia of their order and led in a procession that included Aleandro, Latomus, and Egmond. The procession terminated at the square in front of the Brussels cathedral, St. Gudala, where pyres stood prepared. The friars were then ceremonially degraded, their monastic garb replaced with plain robes. Both were given one last chance to recant. Refusing the offers of last-minute reprieve, Voes and Esschen were fastened to stakes. Torches applied fire to the wood. According to reports, the two young friars sang Te Deum laudamus before succumbing to the smoke and flames.[9]
And a mob riled up by Dominicans and alcohol against the reformation in the low counties attempted to burn Brother Henry after abducting him in the middle of the night and dragging him naked behind a horse to another town. When they tried but couldn’t burn him to death, they opted to beat him to death, instead.
Well, Martin Luther called for death to heretics.
In 1530 Luther advanced the view that two offences should be penalized even with death, namely sedition and blasphemy. The emphasis was thus shifted from incorrect belief to its public manifestation by word and deed. This was, however, no great gain for liberty, because Luther construed mere abstention from public office and military service as sedition and a rejection of an article of the Apostles’ Creed as blasphemy.
In a memorandum of 1531, composed by Melanchthon and signed by Luther, a rejection of the ministerial office was described as insufferable blasphemy, and the disintegration of the Church as sedition against the ecclesiastical order. In a memorandum of 1536, again composed by Melanchthon and signed by Luther, the distinction between the peaceful and the revolutionary Anabaptists was obliterated . . .
Luther may not have been too happy about signing these memoranda. At any rate, he appended postscripts to each. To the first he said,
I assent. Although it seems cruel to punish them with the sword, it is crueler that they condemn the ministry of the Word and have no well-grounded doctrine and suppress the true and in this way seek to subvert the civil order.
In any case the killing of those two monks was horrendous and un Christian and should not have happened
The Huron Indians seem to have disappeared—early...
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