Jean de Brébeuf

Biography

It was born with Condé-sur-Vire the March 25th 1593. Jean de Brébeuf entered to the Jésuites in 1617. Its troubles of health at the twenty-eight years age prevented it from acquiring a wide theological knowledge. it arrived on June 19th 1625 at Quebec where it remained in spite of the threat of the captain Huguenot of the remmener in France.

After having overcome the aversion of the colonists for the Jesuits, it chooses a site for a residence on the Rivière Saint-Charles, at the exact place of an old camping of Jacques Cartier. It is established immediately in the Amerindian tipis where it spends the winter. In spring, it embarks with the Amerindian S for a voyage by canoe on the Lake Huron. July 19th 1629, it turns over in France after the rendering of the colony to the English by Champlain. Four years later, it sets out again on March 23rd 1633 for the Canada with its restitution with the France. As of its arrival, it tries to turn over to the Lake Huron but the Amerindian S refuse to take it along. The following year, it succeeds in reaching its old mission. In 1640, it tries without success of évangéliser the Neutres, a tribe in the north of the Lac Érié. In 1642, it is sent to Quebec where it with the load of the Amerindians of the reserve of Sillery. With most extremely of the Huron conflict between S and Iroquois, after two preceding failures in order to reach the Huron country, it is named to make a third attempt which it makes a success of. Although the Iroquois made peace with the French, their war with the Huron S continued. March 16th, 1649, it is captured during an attack. He prefers to remain with his faithful instead of escaping and is trailed at the village of Saint-Ignace where he is accommodated by a stone rain, is bâtonné and been dependant on the torture post. One poured ebullient water to him on the head in a parody of baptism, a collar of knocked heated tomahawks with white passed around the neck and a red iron inserted in the throat without it pushing only one moaning. Fire was lit under him and its lacerated body of stabs. With its death, its heart was torn off and eaten. He was canonized on June 29th 1930 by the Black and white Pope XI.

the birthplace of Jean de Brébeuf made run much ink: Bayeux, or Condé-sur-Vire with Wooded the where was the manor seigneurial its family, Gilles II of Brébeuf and Marie the Dragon? (each author beginning again only what had already been written, without true great innovation)

Mr. Béziers, initially Cleaned of the one of the parishes of Bayeux (where it was born), then Chanoine of St Sepulchre to Caen, written in 1773: “the P. Jean de Brébeuf, Jesuit missionary, was born in Bayeux in the Midsummer's Day suburb about the last years from the 16th century, of a former family Noble”.

In 1848, F. Boisard, biographer of the Apple-brandy, known as of Mr. Béziers: “it could draw with more than one source”, which takes again the Faucon abbot in 1869 in the religious week of Bayeux , by adding that Mr. Béziers wrote: “its history at one time more brought closer to the event” to give him more weight. The Faucon abbot continues by saying that the birth of Jean de Brébeuf took place “Paroisse of Saint-Exupère” who belonged to the Midsummer's Day suburb, that according to an oral tradition coming to corroborate what precedes, “the mother of this child had come to pass some time to Bayeux, within its family, was confined in this city during the stay that it made there”, and that “our future Martyr would have been born with some steps from the church in an old feudal manor”. The old registers of Saint-Exupère attest the presence of Brébeuf, but the gaps prevent more.

As for the day of birth, are advanced on March 24th, 1593 (Lebreton), March 14th, 1593 (Falcon) and even 1592 (Boisard).

The general Files of the Society of Jesus, to Rome, are marked: Joannes de Brebeuf, natus in oppide Condaei, 25 martii year. 1593 . Natus means born, but could simply mean also originating; it is a confusion which one often meets in the parochial registers, at least in French. Those starting only in 1596 with Condé-sur-Vire, any research proves to be impossible. With those of the many parishes of Bayeux, consultable but incomplete, the doubt continues to remain.

Mr. written Béziers: “this religious piles returned its heart to God in the middle of his sufferings on March 16th, 1649”. “He was uncle of Georges de Brébeuf so known by his translation of the Pharsale of Lucain” .poolicketr

Commemoration

With Quebec, the historical Lieu national Cartier-Brébeuf commemorates the actions of Jean de Brébeuf and the Jesuits in America, like those of Jacques Cartier. laghfing man

Bibliographical sources

summary History of the town of Bayeux , Mr. Béziers, Royal Academy of the beautiful Letters of Caen, MDCCLXXIII, p. 199.
Biographical notes, literary and critical on the men of the Apple-brandy , F. Boisard, 1848, p. 24,42.
Biography Norman , Th. Lebreton, Rouen, 1857, p. 219.
the religious Week of Bayeux , abbot Falcon, 1869, p. 468.
Note on the three Brébeuf , Charles Marie, Company of the Antique dealers of Normandy, 1875, p. 124.
the Apostle in the middle eaten , J. Caster hammer, 1949, p. 3.
Jean de Brébeuf , Rene Latourelle, ED. Bellarmin, 1993.

External bond

Biography of the biographical Dictionary of Canada in line

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