...portion of his courage. A chief then tore out his heart, and devoured it. Thus died Jean de Brdbeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its truest hero,...greatest martyr. He came of a noble race, the same from which sprang the English earls of Arundel ; but never had the mailed barons of his line confronted...

...his capture and torture by the Iroquois. It is too terrible to recount. Parkman says: Thus died Jean de Brebeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its...truest hero and its greatest martyr. He came of a noble race,—the same, it is said, from which sprang the English Earls of Arundel; but never had the mailed...

...horror. Francis Parkman detailed his last hours and remarked of Br6beuf: "He came of a noble race,—the same, it is said, from which sprang the English Earls...flinch, and 'his death was the astonishment of his murderers.' " ls As Spain's high missionary zeal in the sixteenth century had been quickened by the...

...a modern reader recoil in horror. Francis Parkman detailed his last hours and remarked of Brébeuf: "He came of a noble race,— the same, it is said,...barons of his line confronted a fate so appalling, with ii so prodigious a constancy. To the last he refused to flinch, and 'his death was the astonishment...

...with it some portion of his courage. A chief then tore out his heart, and devoured it. Thus died Jean de Brebeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its...flinch, and "his death was the astonishment of his murderers."1 In him an enthusiastic devotion was grafted on an heroic nature. His bodily endowments...