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...nearly 300 years since a Jesuit priest named Isaac Jogues set out from Orleans, France to win North American Indians for Christ. He made some progress among the sedentary Hurons, at the price of hate and fear from the warlike Iroquois. One day in 1642 a band of Mohawk Iroquois caught him by the St. Lawrence with some Huron converts. They took him to their village in what is now New York State, amusing themselves along the way by ripping out his fingernails, chopping off his thumbs, plucking out his hairs, heaping live coals on his body. Escaping after...
Flat on the altar steps of the grey stone church at squat, dun-colored, little Caughnawaga, Quebec one day last fortnight lay Michael Jacobs, 32. When he arose an ordained Jesuit priest, pledged to missionary work among Indians around Caughnawaga, many a spectator felt that an old, old debt had been partly paid...
...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?...
...Because the Baltimore Sun, in its foreign correspondence, found in Jesuit Loyola and Adolf Hitler "the same readiness and determination to exercise their power with ruthlessness and brutality in order to carry out" their missions, Baltimore's Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley last week flayed the Sun, commanded his flock to take "action...