{"id":1040,"date":"2005-10-19T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T09:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/martyrs.html"},"modified":"2005-10-19T09:20:46","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T09:20:46","slug":"martyrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/martyrs.html","title":{"rendered":"Martyrs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone should note that today is the feast of the North American Martyrs. Jogues, Brebeuf, etc. Read Black Robe in celebration!<\/a> Well, "celebration" doesn’t quite capture it. Remembrance, maybe?<\/p>\n

Or, perhaps you should read Parkman’s The Jesuits in North America<\/a><\/p>\n

Or, you could really go to town and take a look at the Jesuit Relations which are, amazingly, all online right here<\/a><\/p>\n

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This site contains entire English translation of the The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents<\/em>, originally compiled and edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by The Burrows BrothersCompany, Cleveland, throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century. Each file represents the total English contents of a single published volume. The original work has facing pages in the original French, Latin or Italian, depending on the author. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of particular interest might be Brebeuf’s Instructions to the MIssionaries<\/em> which are found by themselves here<\/a> and within the context of the Relations<\/em> here, on pp. 117-123<\/a><\/p>\n

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You must have sincere affection for the Savages, looking upon them as ransomed by the blood of the son of God, and as our brethren, with whom we are to pass the rest of our lives<\/em><\/p>\n

…leaving a highly civilized community, you fall into the hands of barbarous people who care but little for your Philosophy or your Theology. All the fine qualities which might make you loved and respected in France [237 i.e., 233] are like pearls trampled under the feet of swine, or rather of mules, which utterly despise you when they see that you are not as good pack animals as they are. If you could go naked, and carry the load of a horse upon your back, as they do, then you would be wise according to their doctrine, and would be recognized as a great man, otherwise not. Jesus Christ is our true greatness; it is he alone and his cross that should be sought in running after these people, for, if you strive for anything else, you will find naught but bodily and spiritual affliction. But having found Jesus Christ in his cross, you have found the roses in the thorns, sweetness in bitterness, all in nothing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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