Word: beuf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some Iroquois caught some Hurons with two more of their Jesuit friends, gigantic Jean de Brébeuf and frail Gabriel Lalemant. Stripping their captives, they promptly set about pounding them with clubs, searing them with glowing irons, tearing out their fingernails. Father Brébeuf exhorted his comrades to bear up bravely. The Iroquois cut out his tongue. Father Brébeuf's eyes still sparked courage. The Iroquois gouged them out, dropped live coals in the sockets. They draped a red-hot necklace over his head. Then they scalped him, baptized him with boiling water...
Some of the warriors who in grudging admiration drank Father Brébeuf's blood and ate his heart lived to enter the Jesuit mission at Caughnawaga as Christian converts. But four more Jesuits and two lay companions died martyrs' deaths before the Iroquois began to relent. And never until scholarly, unassuming Michael Jacobs, born Wishe Karhaienton, was ordained, had a full-blooded Mohawk Iroquois donned the black robe which made him a spiritual brother of Isaac Jogues and Jean de Breb?...
...feast day of Saints Peter & Paul. His Holiness continued what was becoming a physically painful ordeal, canonized ten more saints. Two were Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, illustrious Jesuit, and Theophilus Da Corte. The others were the first North American saints, all martyred by Indians-Isaac Jogues, John de Brébeuf, Noel Chabanel, Anthony Daniel, Gabriel Lalemant, Charles Gamier (Jesuit priests), René Goupil, John Lalande (laymen) (TIME, April...