Jean de Brébeuf
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1593 – 1649
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Who was Jean de Brébeuf?
Saint Jean de Brébeuf was a French Jesuit missionary who traveled to New France in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Huron for the rest of his life, except for a short time back in France in 1629-1630. He learned their language and culture.
In 1649 Brébeuf and several other missionaries were captured when an Iroquois raid took over a Huron village. Together with Huron captives, the missionaries were ritually tortured and eight were killed, martyred on March 16, 1649. Brébeuf was beatified in 1925 and canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church in 1930.
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- Born
- Mar 25, 1593
Condé-sur-Vire - Also known as
- Jean de Brebeuf
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- Canada
- France
- Died
- Mar 16, 1649
Midland
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on July 23, 2013
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