Canadian MartyrsTitle given by the Catholic Church to eight French Jesuits and donnés (lay assistants) killed while doing missionary work among the Huron, Petun and Iroquois, between 1642 and 1648. They were canonized in 1930. |
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Jean de Brébeuf, (1593-1649)
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René Goupil, (1608-1642) |