Jogues biography
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Isaac Jogues
French Jesuit missionary and martyr (1607-1646)
For the unincorporated community in Ontario, see Jogues, Ontario.
Saint Isaac Jogues SJ | |
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Portrait by Donald Guthrie McNab, 1895 | |
| Born | (1607-01-10)10 January 1607 Orléans, Orléanais, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 18 October 1646(1646-10-18) (aged 39) Ossernenon, Canada, New France |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church (Canada and the United States) |
| Beatified | 21 June 1925, Rome, Italy, by Pope Pius XI |
| Canonized | 29 June 1930, Vatican City by Pope Pius XI |
| Major shrine | National Shrine of the North American Martyrs, Auriesville, New York, United States |
| Feast | 19 October (General Roman Calendar), 26 September (1962 Calendar, Canada) |
Isaac JoguesSJ (10 January 1607 – 18 October 1646) was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the first European to name Lake George, calling it Lac du Saint Sacrement (Lake of the Blessed Sacrament). In 1646, Jogues was martyred by the Mohawk at their village of Ossernenon, near the Mohawk River.
Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf and six other martyred missionaries, all Jesuit priests or laypeople associated with them, were canonized by the Catholic Church in 19
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St. Isaac Jogues
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French missionary, born at Orléans, France, 10 January, 1607; martyred at Ossernenon, in the present State of New York, 18 October, 1646. He was the first Catholicpriest who ever came to Manhattan Island (New York). He entered the Society of Jesus in 1624 and, after having been professor of literature at Rouen, was sent as a missionary to Canada in 1636. He came out with Montmagny, the immediate successor of Champlain. From Quebec he went to the regions around the great lakes where the illustrious Father de Brébeuf and others were labouring. There he spent six years in constant danger. Though a daring missionary, his character was of the most practical nature, his purpose always being to fix his people in permanent habitations. He was with Garnier among the Petuns, and he and Raymbault penetrated as far as Sault Ste Marie, and "were the first missionaries", says Bancroft (VII, 790, London, 1853), "to preach the gospel a thousand miles in the interior, five years before John Eliot addressed the Indians six miles from Boston Harbo
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