Brebeuf: A Martyrdom of Jean de
Author: Eldon Garnet
Publisher: Press Porcepic
Language: English
Pages: 144
Size: 23 x 15 cm
Weight:
230 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9780888781376
Availability:
In stock
Price:
€40.00
Product Description
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.