Jean de brebeuf biography of michaels
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The Jesuit Revelations
With his latest book, Mark Bourrie ushers readers into a world replete with exotic rituals, social and cultural habits long extinct (or, more precisely, obliterated by sovereign European powers), and not a few mutual slaughters. Gripping stuff, grippingly told. The book’s grand sweep takes us from the arrival of Jean de Brébeuf in Canada in 1625 up to the 1984 visit of Pope John Paul II, who prayed over the Jesuit’s skull, strategically positioned at the Shrine of the Canadian Martyrs in Midland, Ontario. There are some preliminaries, such as an ultra-condensed sixteenth-century history, as well as some updates on archeological excavations at the site where Brébeuf and several companions died in 1649. In addition, Bourrie provides a glossary of nations, places, and sundry other items, including a dramatis personae of near-Tolstoyan magnitude, to help us keep track of the many players who people the text.
The competing ambitions, savvy conniving, venal exp
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This biography was written by Michael Solowan and is just one of the 50 biographies beautifully illustrated in the book Canada: Portraits of Faith, published and edited by Michael D. Clarke. It is a priceless treasure that I urge you to acquire. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission.
Jean de Brébeuf
1593-1649
“His desire was to die for Jesus Christ.”
Michael Solowan
Jesuit priest Jean de Brébeuf, the giant of the Huron missions, was a hero and a martyr. His unbridled commitment to God’s work among the Huron resulted in his canonization by Pius XI in 1930 and, in 1940, his being proclaimed the patron saint of Canada by Pius XII. For Brébeuf, Jesus Christ was the sole reason for living and, indeed, for dying, as he reveals in his diary:
My God, my Saviour, I take from thy hand the cup of thy sufferings. I vow never to fail thee in the grace of martyrdom, if by thy mercy, thou d