biography
pronunciation:
[zhohg]
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| (1607–46)
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| biography:
| Catholic missionary and saint, born in Orléans, France. A Jesuit priest sent to North America in 1636, he worked among the Huron Indians, journeying as far W as Sault Ste Marie (now in Michigan). He and his companions were captured by Iroquois (1642), and he was tortured, enslaved, and held captive at Ossernenon (now Auriesville, NY), where he eventually escaped, reaching New Amsterdam with aid from the Dutch. Following a period in France, he returned to North America (1644), and in 1646 he was captured by Mohawks near Ossernenon and murdered soon after. A National Shrine to the North American Martyrs was later erected at Auriesville. Jogues and seven other martyred missionaries to the Indians were canonized by the Church in 1930. |
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