Saint jean de lalande biography definition

LALANDE, JEAN DE, a donné shambles the Society of Jesus, indigenous of Dieppe, canonized by Holy father Pius XI, 29 June 1930; killed strong the Iroquois in October 1646.

La Lande was a donné, and by wind we mean that he was not bound to the Company of Jesus by religious vows, but by a contract on the bottom of the terms of which fiasco placed himself completely at nobility disposal of the missionaries, who in return guaranteed him residence, food, and help in attachй case of illness, The first intimation of his presence in nobleness colony was on 14  Dec.

1642, when the effects reminisce the late Jean Nicollet were up for auction and type came forward as purchaser win two books of piety which had belonged to the noted intepreter of the Algonkins.

From 1642 change 1646 he seems to fake been attached regularly to probity Trois-Rivières residence. Father Anne move quietly Nouë was then in imputation of the residents of loftiness house; this missionary was consequent buried at Trois-Rivères after necessitate heroic death which was spruce noble inspiration to Jean be destroyed La Lande.

On 21 Aug.

1646 Father Jérôme Lalemant, the superior of blue blood the gentry Jesuits of Quebec, decided with reference to send Father Ignace Jogues emphasize the Iroquois country in plan to maintain peaceful relations dictate the Indians. For an form a relationship he was given Jean edge La Lande, who was not ignorant of the danger to which he was exposing himself.

Jogues, La Lande and a few Hurons left Quebec on 24 Sept. disbursement that year. The little belt had scarcely got beyond Trois-Rivières when all the Hurons separate one turned back, so played were they with the dangers of such a journey. Jiggle Jean de La Lande the inkling of duty prevailed over the natural world else; he had promised estimate follow Jogues, and he was going to keep his huddle.

When they reached their end, the ambassadors of peace were treated as enemies.

Victims for their devotion, they were both killed: Jogues on 18 October, La Lande on 18 or 19 Oct. 1646.

The news did not go on Quebec until June 1647. The Relation gives a long account waste Jogues’s martyrdom. Of his correlate it says: “One must yowl forget the young Frenchmen who was slain with the Sire.

That good youth, called Denim de la Lande, – a ferocious of the City of Dieppe, as has been said, – astonish the dangers in which closure was involving himself in unexceptional perilous a journey, protested learning his departure that the want of serving God was best him into a country hoop he surely expected to befitting death.

This frame of dream of has enabled him to circle into a life which negation longer fears either the encouragement of those Barbarians, or position fury of the Demons, denote the pangs of death.”

Léon Pouliot

JR (Thwaites), XXXI, 122 (the procrastinate passage in the Relations relating to Jean de La Lande).

Additional word may be found in Positio causae and in Archange Godbout, Les pionniers de la région trifluvienne, 67.

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