Identifier: sadliersexcelsio00newy (find matches)
Title: Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York, W. H. Sadlier
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of martyrdom at the hands of the samefierce tribe. Their sufferings are thus described by JohnGilmary Shea: The hands of Breboeuf were cut off; while Lalemants flesh qaivered with the awls and pointed irons thrust into every part of hiebody. * After a series of trials and disasters, he reached a college of his order at RennetAs soon as it was known that he came from Canada, the Fathers pressed around himto ask if he brought any tidings of Father Jogues. When he disclosed his name andshowed the marks of his sulferings, great was the joy and gratitude throughout thecommunity. Everywhere the missionary was received with honor ; princes and nobles vied inshowing him courtesy ; the Queen-mother, the stately Anne of Austria, felt privilegedon being allowed to kiss his deformed and mangled hands ; and the reigning Pontiff,Urban VIII, granted him a special dispensation to offer the Holy Sacrifice, saying: It were unjust that a martyr of Jesus Christ should not drink the blood of JtsuiChrist.
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MARTYRS TH TKW vwW WORT.D. 100 EXCELSIOR HISTORY. Amid the din rose the voice of the old Huron missionary consoling his converts, denouncing Gods judgments on the unbeliever,till his executioners crushed his mouth with a stone, cut off his noseand lips, and thrust a brand into his mouth, so that his throat andtongue, burnt and swollen, refused their office. They tore off his scalp, and thrice, in derision of baptism, pouredthe water over his head, amid the loud shout of the unbelievers. Theeye of the martyr was now dim, and the torturers, unable from first tolast, to wring from his lips one sigh of pain, were eager to close thescene. Hacking off his feet, they clove open his chest, took out hisnoble heart and devoured it. Thus, after three hours of frightful torture, expired FatherJohn de Brebceuf, a man such as the Catholic Church alone couldproduce. 14. Gabriel Lalemant had cast himself at the feet of Brebceuf tokiss his glorious wounds ; but he had been torn away, and after beingwr

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