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Eight Jesuits—killed between 1642 and 1649—became known as the North American Martyrs. In 1654, the Jesuits started establishing missions among the Iroquois. In 1656 Sainte Marie among the Iroquois (originally known as Sainte-Marie-de-Ganentaa or St. Mary's of Ganantaa) was the first of these new missions to be established, located among ...
19 October (General Roman Calendar), 26 September (1962 Calendar, Canada) Isaac Jogues SJ (10 January 1607 – 18 October 1646) was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the first European to name Lake George, calling it Lac du Saint Sacrement ...
The Canadian Martyrs (French: Martyrs canadiens), also known as the North American Martyrs (French: Saints martyrs canadiens, Holy Canadian Martyrs), were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. They were ritually tortured and killed on various dates in the mid-17th century in Canada, in what is now southern Ontario, and ...
Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, 1523, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyrs. Jan de Bakker, 1525, burned at the stake. Martyrs of Tlaxcala, 1527-1529. Felix Manz, 1527. Patrick Hamilton, 1528, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyr. George Blaurock, 1529.
The belief that Marcus Whitman was deliberately poisoning Native Americans infected with measles. The Whitman massacre (also known as the Whitman killings and the Tragedy at Waiilatpu) [1][2] was the killing of American missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, along with eleven others, on November 29, 1847. They were killed by a small group of ...
Jean de Brébeuf SJ (French: [ʒɑ̃ də bʁe.bœf]) (25 March 1593 – 16 March 1649) was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Huron for the rest of his life, except for a few years in France from 1629 to 1633.
Frumentius – early missionary to Ethiopia. Saint Kilian – Irish missionary killed in Franconia. Mark the Evangelist. Luke the Evangelist. Pantaenus – early missionary to India. Saint Patrick – early missionary to Ireland. Saint Paul. Twelve Apostles – all of the twelve are considered missionaries.
The situation of the Catholic Church in the Thirteen Colonies was characterized by an extensive religious persecution originating from Protestant sects, which would barely allow religious toleration to Catholics living on American territory. Nonetheless, Catholics were a part of colonial history from the beginning, especially in Maryland, a ...