Footnote # 1

T.J. Campbell, "Jean de Brébeuf," Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume II (Robert Appleton, 1907); on-line edition K. Knight, 2003; http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02751b.htm

Footnote # 2

"Important Advice to Those Whom It Shall Please God to Call to New France, and Especially to the Country of the Hurons," in Brébeuf's 1636 report to his superior, Father Le Jeune. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites (Cleveland, OH: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1896-1901), 10:85.

Footnote # 3

Brébeuf's 1636 report to his superior, Father Le Jeune, in Jesuit Relation, Thwaites,10:45-47.

Footnote # 4

Letter of Father Le Jeune, in The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites (Cleveland, OH: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1896-1901), 5:238.

Footnote # 5

Le Jeune, in Jesuit Relations, ed. by Thwaites, 5:246-252.

Footnote # 6

Brébeuf's report to Le Jeune, in Jesuit Relations, ed. by Thwaites, 8:91-93. Echom or Echon was Brébeuf's name among the Wendats, a rendering of his first name, Jean.

Footnote # 7

Brébeuf's report to Le Jeune, in Jesuit Relations, ed. by Thwaites, 8:97.

Footnote # 8

Le Jeune, in Jesuit Relations, ed. by Thwaites, 8:47-48.

Footnote # 9

Brébeuf's 1636 report to Le Jeune, in Jesuit Relations, ed. by Thwaites, 10:12 & 26.

Footnote # 10

Christophe Regnaut, "A veritable Account of the Martyrdom and Blessed death of Father Jean de Breboeuf and of Father Gabriel L'Alemant, in New France, in the country of the Hurons, by the Iroquois, enemies of the Faith," in Jesuit Relations, ed. by Thwaites, 34:27-30. Regnaut was a lay brother working with the Jesuits. He did not witness the tortures he describes, but was told about them in detail by Wendats who had fled the scene. He also recovered the two priests' remains and reports how he examined them carefully, and their condition corroborated the accounts.

Further Reading

Thwaites, Reuben Gold. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. Cleveland, OH: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1896.

Trigger, Bruce G. The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660. Montreal: McGill-Queen?s University Press, 1976.

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