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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...

Isaac Jogues Isaac Jogues John de Brebeuf          This File was uploaded September 29th 1999  in honor of Rene' Goupil, surgeon and lay apostle who was martyred on September 29, 1642 - the first of the 8 Canadian Martyrs SAINTS LIVED HERE  The Story of the Martyr's Shrine  by J.G. Shaw INTRODUCTION On Sacred Ground Those who come to visit Martyrs' Shrine as visitors or as true pilgrims will experience something that will move any faithful Christian. This experience in some ways can only be compared to standing in the Catacombs or in the Coliseum at Rome. What...