My God, it grieves me greatly that you are not known, that in this savage wilderness all have not been converted to you, that sin has not been driven from it. My God, even if all the brutal tortures which prisoners in this region must endure should fall on me, I offer myself most willingly[…]
Day: September 26, 2019
The Non-Milquetoast and Quite Holy Canadian Martyrs
In the rest of the world, the Canadian, or if you will, North American, Martyrs, six priests and two laymen put to death for the faith between 1642 and 1649 – are celebrated on October 19th, when the layman Jean de la Lalande was put to death in 1646, one day after the priest whom[…]