Canadian Martyrs

Title 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.

Jean de Brébeuf, (1593-1649)
Noël Chabanel, (1612-1649)
Antoine Daniel, (1601-1648)
Charles Garnier, (1606-1649)

René Goupil, (1608-1642)
Isaac Jogues, (1607-1646)
Jean de La Lande, (died in 1646)
Gabriel Lalemand, (1610-1649)

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