A history of the United States for Catholic schools . litarychant. Through the kind-ness of the Dutch GovernorKieft, Father Jogues escapedand from New York was con-veyed to France. He waseverywhere received withhonor, and, notwithstanding his mutilated hands. Pope UrbanVIII granted him special permission to read Holy Mass, saying: It would be wrong to prevent the martyr of Christ from drink-ing the Blood of Christ. His heart, however, was with the Indians,and he boarded the first vessel that left France for to Canada and once more entering New York, thescene of his former suf
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . litarychant. Through the kind-ness of the Dutch GovernorKieft, Father Jogues escapedand from New York was con-veyed to France. He waseverywhere received withhonor, and, notwithstanding his mutilated hands. Pope UrbanVIII granted him special permission to read Holy Mass, saying: It would be wrong to prevent the martyr of Christ from drink-ing the Blood of Christ. His heart, however, was with the Indians,and he boarded the first vessel that left France for to Canada and once more entering New York, thescene of his former suffering, he received the long-coveted crownof martyrdom at the hands of the Mohawks (1646). 88. Fathers Breboeuf and Lallemand. Father Breboeuf,S. J. (1593-1649), styled by Spalding the Xavier of theHurons, came to the Canadian missions (1625). He soon mas-tered the difficult Huron language and became all to all, inorder to gain all to Christ. Father Gabriel Lallemand, S. J. (1610-1649), the Aloysiusof the Huron Mission, called by Bancroft the Gentle. FATHER ISAAC JOGUES THE FRENCH IN AMERICA 65 Lallemand, was a co-laborer of Father Breboeuf. Both ofthese illustrious missionaries were seized by the Iroquois andcruelly tortured. Father Breboeuf suffered for nearly threehours; Father Lallemand much longer. Spalding, speaking ofthe death of Lallemand and Breboeuf, says : The former wasa lamb, the latter a lion. The lion and the lamb were immolatedtogether for their love of God and of their neighbor. Yet didthe lamb die much more slowly than the lion. 89. Father Daniel—Father Rene Menard—Father ClaudeAllouez. Father Daniel, S. J. (1648), while employed in mis-sionary labors among the Hurons, was killed at the foot of thealtar during an Iroquois massacre. Father Rene Menard, S. J., a survivor of the Huron missionsand former companion of Fathers Jogues and Breboeuf, laboredamong the Ottawas, and after incredible hardships and wan-derings, founded a mission on Keweenaw Bay, norther
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