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(Born at Paris, France, 3 October 1610 – March 17 , 1649 ) Saint Gabriel Lallemant was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie Among The Hurons , and one of the eight Canadian Martyrs . He is a Patron Saint of Canada . In 1630 he joined the Jesuits. At Moulins, for three years, he taught. Before his Ordination in 1638 , he furthered his studies in Bourges. Lallemant was the nephew of former Sainte-Marie superior Jérôme Lalemant . At his request, in 1646 , when he finished his duties at Moulins & La Flèche as a teacher he was sent to Wendake as a missionary and assistant to Fr. Jean De Brébeuf . He had only been at the mission for six months when he was captured by the Iroquois along with Brébeuf. He was taken to St Ignace and tortured before he too was killed on March 17 , 1649 . He was Canonized by Pope Pius XI on 29 June 1930 . His last moments are recorded as follows: "At the height of these torments, Father Gabriel Lallemant lifted his eyes to Heaven, clasping his hands from time to time and uttering sighs to God, whom he invoked to his aid." {Link without Title} "had received a hatchet blow on the left ear, which they had driven into his brain, which appeared exposed: we saw no part of his body, from the feet even to the head, which had not been broiled, and in which he had not been burned alive, – even the eyes, into which those impious ones had thrust burning coals." EXTERNAL LINKS |
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