Jesuit Missionaries Burned Alive, 17th Century

The North American Martyrs were Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. The Huron in this area were farmers, fishermen and traders who lived in villages surrounded by defensive wooden palisades for protection. By the late 1640s the Jesuits believed they were making progress in their mission to the Huron, and claimed to have made many converts. But, the priests were not universally trusted. Many Huron considered them to be malevolent shamans who brought death and disease wherever they travelled after European contact, the Huron had suffered high fatalities in epidemics after 1634 of smallpox and other Eurasian infectious diseases, to which aboriginal peoples had no immunity. They were ritually tortured and killed on various dates in the 17th century in Canada, in what is now southern Ontario, and in upstate New York, during the warfare between the Iroquois and the Huron. They have subsequently been canonized and venerated as martyrs by the Catholic Church. The martyrs are St. Rene Goupil (1642), St. Isaac Jogues (1646), St. Jean de Lalande (1646), St. Antoine Daniel (1648), St. Jean de Brcebeuf (1649), St. Nocel Chabanel (1649), St. Charles Garnier (1649), and St. Gabriel Lalemant (1649)

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1640s Burned Cruel Cruelty Execute Executed Executing Huron Hurons Infamous Inhumane Inhumanity Jesuit Martyrs Method Missionaries Notorious Punish Punishing Sates Seventeeth Stake Suffering Torturer Torturing Wyandot

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