Martin de Lyonne (1611-1661) is a Jesuit and a missionary of Canada.

Arrived in 1643, it replaced with Miscou the Père Dolbeau. It there exerted its zeal with the Père Richard, and made a mission with Miramichi in 1646. November 16th, 1651, it left Quebec on the vessel the Saint-Joseph to pass to France.

After a crossing of most stormy, the vessel was seized and plundered, close to the Ile de Ré, and was led to Brouage. The father of Lyonne went from there to La Rochelle, from where it made known, the next on December 27th, the events of his unhappy voyage. Of return to Canada, it continued the exercise of its ministry in Acadie.

Only missionary in the dwelling of Chédabouctou, where had just burst a contagious disease, it devoted himself entire to the service of the patients. The contagion seemed to save it, when it acted with more violence on the others; informed that a person was struck contagion, it leaves all, it there short, and as it crossed a cold brook, the ice broke under its feet.

It falls to water, and in wet and stiff fate, its road continues thus, assists the patient, comforts it and prepares it with death; but at once the fever seizes it itself, and two days afterwards, it returned its noble soul to God on January 16th, 1661.

References

• general Repertory of the Canadian clergy, by chronological order since the foundation of the colony until our days, by Mgr Cyprien Tanguay, Montreal: Eusèbe Senécal & wire, printers and publishers, 1893.