Case file · Apparition / miracle
Deaths of Brébeuf and Lalemant
Jesuits Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant were tortured and killed by Haudenosaunee warriors in March 1649 at the Wendat mission of Saint-Ignace; they were canonized in 1930 among the Canadian Martyrs.
1649 CE · 44.74, -79.85 · status: official
The account
The Martyrs' Shrine at Midland was built in 1926 beside the reconstructed mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. Pope John Paul II prayed there in 1984.
The sceptical view
Wendat and Haudenosaunee historians stress that the missions were part of a colonial war and an epidemic that devastated Wendake.