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SUMMARY:North American Martyrs
DESCRIPTION:THE NORTH AMERICAN MARTYRS\nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints 7\n◊◊◊\nOn March 16\, 1649\, the Iroquois attacked the village at which Brébeuf and\nLalemant were stationed. The torture of these two missionaries was as\natrocious as anything recorded in history. At the height of the torments Father\nLalemant raised his eyes to Heaven and invoked God’s aid\, whilst Father de\nBrebeuf set his face like a rock as though insensible to the pain. Then\, like one\nrecovering consciousness\, he preached to his persecutors and to the Christian\ncaptives until the savages gagged his mouth\, cut off his nose\, tore off his lips\,\nand then\, in derision of baptism\, deluged him and his companion martyrs with\nboiling water. Finally\, large pieces of flesh were cut out of the bodies of both the\npriests and roasted by the Indians\, who tore out their hearts before their death\nby means of an opening above the breast\, feasting on them and their blood\,\nwhich they drank while it was still warm. \nBefore the end of the year 1649 the Iroquois had penetrated as far as the\nTobacco nation\, where Father Garnier had founded a mission in 1641 and where\nthe Jesuits now had two stations. The inhabitants of the village of Saint-Jean\nhearing that the enemy was approaching\, sent out their men to meet the\nattackers\, who\, however\, took a roundabout way and arrived at the gates\nunexpectedly. An orgy of incredible cruelty followed\, in the midst of which\nGarnier\, the only priest in the mission\, hastened from place to place\, giving\nabsolution to the Christians and baptizing the children and catechumens\,\ntotally unmindful of his own fate. While thus employed he was shot down by the\nmusket of an Iroquois. He strove to reach a dying man whom he thought he\ncould help\, but after three attempts he collapsed\, and subsequently received his\ndeath-blow from a hatchet which penetrated to the brain. \nFather Noël Chabanel\, the missionary companion of Garnier\, was\nimmediately recalled. He had started on his way back with some Christian\nHurons when they heard the cries of the Iroquois returning from Saint-Jean.\nThe father urged his followers to escape\, but was too much exhausted to keep up\nwith them. His fate was long uncertain\, but a Huron apostate eventually\nadmitted having killed the holy man out of hatred of the Christian faith.\nThese martyrs of North America\, SS John de Brébeuf\, Isaac Jogues\,\nAnthony Daniel\, Gabriel Lalemant\, Charles Garnier\, Noël Chabanel\, René\nGoupil and John de Lalande\, were canonized in 1930. \n7\nButler’s Lives of the Saints\, ed. Michael Walsh\, Harpers San Francisco\, 1985\, p.136-137.
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