Brebeuf: A Martyrdom of Jean de

On March 16, 1649, Jesuit priest Jean de Brébeuf was martyred. A missionary in Huron-Wendat territory, Father Brébeuf was captured by Iroquois warriors during a war that would ultimately destroy Huronia and scatter its survivors. Brébeuf’s torment stands among the most horrific in Christian annals.

Eldon Garnet undertakes a versified reconstruction of that horridly engraved memory of Christian's persecution history, while reviving, even if for a brief moment, the long disappeared hagiography genre, now infused and larded with modern references to Canadian's cultural references.