Jean de brebeuf biography of abraham
As usual, Brébeuf commences his annual letter by describing " the conversion, baptism, and happy death of some Hurons." During the year, the missionaries in.
Jean was born in Normandy in At the age of twenty-four he entered the Society of Jesus, and not long after his ordination he was chosen as a missionary to....
BRÉBEUF, JEAN DE (called Échon by the Hurons), priest, Jesuit, founder of the Huron mission; b. 25 March at Condé-sur-Vire in Lower Normandy; martyred 16 March at the village of Saint-Ignace in the Huron country (in the region of Midland, Ontario), canonized 29 June by Pius XI and proclaimed by Pius XII on 16 Oct. patron saint of Canada along with his seven martyred companions.
Among Jean de Brébeuf’s ancestors are said to have been companions-in-arms of William the Conqueror and of St. Louis, king of France, and his family, it is said, may be related to the English earls of Arundel.
We know nothing of his immediate family. History has, however, preserved the names of two of his nephews: Georges de Brébeuf (–61), a minor poet of the 17th century, and Nicolas de Brébeuf (–91), prior of Saint-Gerbold, on the outskirts of Caen.
When he was 24 Brébeuf entered the Jesuit noviciate in Rouen.
After two years (–19)
