Here Brébeuf and Lalement endeavoured to rally the panic-stricken villagers.
Brébeuf was scalped, his tormentors drinking the blood, thus to endow themselves with his unflinching courage.
As long before as 1615 the Récollet Le Caron had gone among them, and several years later Brébeuf had made the perilous lodges of Ihonatiria his habitation, but had at length returned to France.
Daniel was likewise deserted; but the giant Brébeuf yielded to no hardships, and surpassed even the seasoned savages in strength and endurance.
Brébeuf was first bound to a stake, all the while continuing to speak words of comfort to his fellow-captives.
Brébeuf and Lalement were stricken to the soul by the carnival of blood; yet their own martyrdom was to be made the most cruel of all.
The giant Brébeuf stood in the breach and cheered them by his hopeful courage.
But Brébeuf had been here in a former year, and his instinctive woodcraft guided him twenty miles through the forest to the palisaded village of Ihonatiria.
The Abbé Le Beuf has made it the subject of a distinct paper in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions.
The mission among the Wyandot tribes, renewed by the great apostle Brébeuf soon after the restoration of Canada to France, had been fruitful in crosses and gave little to encourage the ministers of religion.
To him, therefore, they gave the name which the illustrious Brébeuf had borne, that of Hechon; and he was naturally the one to whose direction they were committed on Isle Orleans.
Chaumonot read with wonder and excited interest the narrative of the heroic Brébeuf and his call for religious to labor with him in converting the Indians of New France.
L'abbé Le Beuf records the increase of population, and the necessary want of a larger church; consequently some relics of S.
L'abbé Le Beuf gives the name of the architect as Charles David, and undoubtedly one of that name was attached to the church, as the fact is recorded upon an epitaph.
But Father Brébeuf and his companions were, together with Champlain, detained as prisoners.
On the passage to Three Rivers, Father Brébeuf was accompanied by Sondatsaa, an exemplary catechumen, and a party chiefly Christians or catechumens.
Father Brébeuf and his companions returned to labor for a time longer among the French and Indians in and about Quebec, where their labors were full of zeal and not without success.
It was here that Father Brébeuf baptized Sasousmat, the first adult upon whom he conferred that sacrament.
And the Indians from the different towns began now to contend among themselves for the honor of possessing Father Brébeuf for their respective settlements.
Brébeuf preserves a speech made to him by one of these chiefs, as a specimen of Huron eloquence.
Some of the chiefs conducted Brébeuf and his companions to the place prepared for the ceremony.
Brébeuf counted thirty-five portages, where the canoes were lifted from the water, and carried on the shoulders of the voyagers around rapids or cataracts.
Brébeuf and Chaumonot set out for the Neutral Nation.
Brébeuf appears to have followed Sagard, Canada (see Troas ed.
These were Fathers Charles Lalemant, Jean de Brébeuf and Enemond Massé.
Father Massé and Father de Brébeuf were soon to resume their ministration in this country, which they were forced to abandon at a time when they had hoped to see the realization of their noble mission.
He was the last representative, together with Fathers Massé, de Noüe and de Brébeuf of the primitive church of Canada.
Father de Brébeuf calculated that, in his time, there were scattered over the whole continent of North America about three hundred thousand Indians who understood the Huron dialect.
A name given to Brébeuf by the Hurons, during his first stay among them (see vol.
Father Brébeuf and his associates planted the missions to the Hurons in what is now the extreme northern part of Simcoe County.
The 'feast of the dead,' witnessed by Brébeuf in that year, was held at this place.
He minutely examined one of these, as well as several village sites and earthworks, in the immediate neighborhood of St. Louis, at which town Brébeuf and Lalemant were captured in 1649.
Martin thinks the various data furnished by Sagard and Brébeuf 'seem to indicate the west entrance of what is now called Penetanguishene Bay' (Life of Jogues, appendix A.
He endeavored, with Brébeuf and Davost, to go at once to the Huron country; but the savages refused to take them, and they were compelled to wait for a more favorable opportunity.
Here Brébeuf remained (alone, after the first year) until the capture of Quebec.
He accompanied the Jesuit missionaries to Canada, and, after remaining at Quebec for a year, went to the Huron country with Brébeuf and De Nouë.
Accompanying Brébeuf to the Huron country, he came back to Quebec in the following spring, apparently remaining there until the English invasion.
The writer tells of Brébeuf passing the entire winter among the savages of the vicinity; Lalemant went on a similar trip, and had to return in eleven days, as his improvident hosts had no food.
He sends Noyrot back to France, in the interests of the mission, and Brébeuf and De Noue to the Huron country.
Then they brought out Lalemant, that Brébeuf might suffer the agony of seeing a weaker spirit flinch.
Brébeuf had not winced, but his frame was relaxing.
Robberies increased till, when Brébeuf reached Georgian Bay, thirty days from leaving Three Rivers, he had little left but the bundles he had carried for himself.
When the Iroquois singed Brébeuf from head to foot with burning birch bark, he threatened them in tones of thunder with everlasting damnation for persecuting the servants of God.
Brébeuf had been to the Huron country before with Etienne Brulé, Champlain's pathfinder; but of the first mission no record exists.
Marie were praying all day and night before the lighted altar for heavenly intervention to rescue Brébeuf and Lalemant, the two captured priests stood bound to the torture stakes, the gapingstock of a thousand fiends.
Luckily three Hurons escaped over the palisades and rushed breathless through the forest to forewarn Brébeuf and Lalemant cooped up in St. Louis.
It was Brébeuf who kept the westernmost outpost for many years.
It was of such portages that Father Brébeuf wrote--portage paths passing almost continually by torrents, by precipices, and by places that were horrible in every way.
The Jesuits, Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant, nephew of Father Charles Lalemant, S.
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