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The saints

Sts. Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf and Companions

French Jesuits and lay helpers who gave their lives among the Huron and the Mohawk.

Feast: 19 October · died 1642 to 1649 · Reformation and missions · New France (Ontario and New York)

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Painting of St. Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit priest, praying with folded hands.

Donald Guthrie McNab, 1895. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.

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Ossernenon, on the Mohawk River, 1646

Jean de Brébeuf lived among the Huron for years, learned their language and wrote a catechism in it.1

Isaac Jogues was captured by the Mohawk, tortured and mutilated, and escaped to France.1

He went back.

Patron of North America1

01Sts. Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf and Companions

Eight martyrs

Jogues was killed in 1646 near what is now Auriesville, New York, with the lay missionary Jean de Lalande.1

Brébeuf was tortured to death in 1649, along with others, eight martyrs in all.1

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Isaac Jogues escaped and went back. Is there a place or relationship you’ve fled that God might be asking you to return to? Take one step toward it this week.

Notes

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  1. Franciscan Media, Saint of the Day: “Saints Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf, and Companions”. franciscanmedia.org. franciscanmedia.org

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