Jean de Brébeuf

St. Jean de Brebeuf, John de Brébeuf also, ( born March 25, 1593 in Condé- sur- Vire, Normandy, † March 16, 1649 at the Georgian Bay ) was a French Jesuit who in the field of Wyandot on Lake Huron in Canada Gospel proclaimed. Jean de Brébeuf and his companions are worshiped in the Catholic Church as a saint.

Life

At 24, Jean de Brébeuf entered the seminary of the Jesuits in Rome, in February 1622 he was ordained a priest. On June 19, 1625 Father de Brébeuf reached the settlement of Quebec in Canada. In 1626 he broke with the Indian tribe of Wyandot on ( Huron ), in which he continued intermittently until his death. He died at the stake by the Iroquois after they had raided the mission station in a fight with the Wyandot.

Through his visits to the tribes of the Hurons, Algonquins, Montagnais and Iroquois and its long reports on their life Father de Brebeuf was the first anthropologist of the French colony. Go to him detailed descriptions of language and customs, including both the still for Indians regarded as stereotyped phrase Howgh. His Christmas song, Jesous Ahatonhia (Jesus, he is born) is written in huronischer language and is still sung today, it is considered the first Canadian Christmas song ever.

The name of the Indian game lacrosse is to go back to Jean de Brébeuf, the the club you used to a crook (in French la crosse ) remembered.

On June 29, 1930, Jean de Brébeuf with Isaac Jogues and other martyrs of North America by Pope Pius XI. canonized, the anniversary P. Brébeufs and his companions is the 19th of October. He is the patron saint of Canada.