Word: brebeuf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrine already contains bones of John de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant and Charles Gamier, Jesuit colleagues in the task of converting the Hurons, whom the Iroquois had vowed to exterminate. The cruelties and hardships to which they submitted were rewarded by canonization last June, the two requisite miracles for that purpose having been duly accepted by the Congregation of Sacred Rites. One was the perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Marie-Maxima of the religious House of St. Hyacinth, in Quebec; the other, the equally perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Savoie of the diocese of Chatham (Canada). Both Sisters were...
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