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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: The Jesuits Gathering Historical Evidence CMap, Motivation Are you driven by a need to adventure and build your own personal reputations Curiosity, Attitude toward the Land http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca "Sometimes also one has great difficulty in making a passage with head and hands through dense woods, in which also a great number of trees that have rotted and fallen on one another are met with, and these one must step over. Then there are rocks and stones and other obstacles which add to the toil of the trail, besides the innumerable mosquitoes which incessantly waged most cruel and vexatious war upon us, Attitude towards First Nations People ?http://www.bookrags.com/biography/jean-de-brebeuf/??? In order to master the native tongue, Brébeuf left Quebec in October 1625 and lived for 5 months among the Montagnais, who belonged to the Algonquin nation. His missionary labors concentrated on the conversion of the Huron in southeastern Ontario., Motivation Are you driven by the ‘promise’ of wealth ? Commerce, Motivation Are you driven by the opportunity to spread the Christian faith to the First Nations people Chrisitanity, Attitude towards First Nations People ?http://www.bookrags.com/biography/jean-de-brebeuf/??? Brébeuf was the first apostle to contact the Hurons, and evangelization involved the severest physical hardships, augmented by surroundings revolting to Christian norms of morality and European sensibilities . Added to this were the insults and calumnies heaped on him by jealous native sorcerers, who blamed the Jesuits for the periodic plagues, famines, and wars and who associated them with the shortcomings of the French colonists. During his initial stay, lasting 3 years, Father Brébeuf familiarized himself with Huron ways and translated the catechism into Huron, but he made no converts., Chrisitanity http://www.bookrags.com/biography/jean-de-brebeuf/ Brébeuf was head of the Mission of St. Joseph, a community of Christian Native Americans at Sillery near Quebec, from 1641 to 1644 , when he left for his third and final stay in Huronia. A rapid increase in conversions greatly strengthened his hopes for Christianizing the entire people. But on March 16, 1649, Iroquois braves-implacable enemies of the Huron, the French, and the missionaries --captured Fathers Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant at the mission station of St. Louis, dragged them a short distance to St. Ignace Mission, and tortured them for hours before killing them. These two, along with four other priests and two lay assistants , known collectively as the North American Martyrs, were beatified in 1925 and canonized in 1930., Jesuit priest Jean de Brébeuf, the giant of the Huron missions, was a hero and a martyr. His unbridled commitment to God's work among the Huron resulted in his canonization by Pius XI in 1930 and, in 1940, his being proclaimed the patron saint of Canada by Pius XII. For Brébeuf, Jesus Christ was the sole reason for living and, indeed, for dying, as he reveals in his diary: My God, my Saviour, I take from thy hand the cup of thy sufferings. I vow never to fail thee in the grace of martyrdom, if by thy mercy, thou dost offer it to me. I bind myself, and when I have received the stroke of death, I will accept it from thy gracious hand with all pleasure and with joy in my heart; to thee my blood, my body and my life! Death held no fear for Brébeuf; for him, it meant life with God forever. Fifteen years before his death, he told his Huron friends that “it is in God alone that my heart rests, and, outside him, all is naught to me.” ???? Chrisitanity, Attitude towards First Nations People http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid= 9&sid=f160c1c2-f669-404b-8a1e- 591ba88825d3%40SRCSM2& bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ %3d%3d#db=rch&AN=9708114473 The Jesuit missionary Paul Le Jeune described New France as the 'Empire of Satan.' His colleague Jean de Brebeuf called the Huron country the 'Devil's kingdom,' while Jerome Lalemant referred to the Huron themselves as 'slaves of the Devil.' The pioneer missionary Pierre Biard suggested that the sauvages of Canada had some idea of God, 'but they are so perverted by false ideas and by custom, that they really worship the Devil.'[2] Others speculated that the Devil animated shamanic activity and meddled in dreams, thereby controlling these unfortunate peoples. In Relations addressed to the faithful in France, the Devil appears as the formidable enemy of the French Jesuits' most important seventeenth-century mission.[3]