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| Jogues, Isaac |
A line in the litany of St. Fidgeta reads "Sweet Fidgeta, deliver us from nuns who describe exactly what the Indians did to St. Isaac Jogues and his friends [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 25].
French Jesuit missionary and martyr (1607-46); he arrived in Quebec in 1636 and immediately was sent to Christianize the Huron on Georgian Bay. In 1642 his party was captured by the Iroquois; several were killed, and the rest were subjected to cruel tortures. Jogues was held captive until July, 1643, when he was ransomed by the Dutch and brought to New Amsterdam. In May, 1646, he returned to Quebec to make plans for establishing a mission among the Mohawks. On his return, accompanied by Father Jean Lalande, he was met by a hostile band of Mohawks near the present Auriesville, N.Y., where both priests were murdered.
American Catholic schoolchildren had all heard of St. Isaac Jogues, a French Jesuit missionary who with his companions fell into the hands of the Iroquois and became the first North American martyrs, says Myers. The film Black Robe, based on a novel by the late Canadian novelist Brian Moore, tells a similar tale of French Jesuit missionaries. Myers regards this film as one of the best movies ever made about a religious subject and one of the best about North American Indians. "If you want to know more about Isaac Jogues read Francis Parkman's The Jesuits in North America in volume one of the Library of America's edition of his magnum opus about the French and English in North America." |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Jogues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Robe_(film)
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