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Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians
Our edition · 1856 · 84 pages
Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians
by Isaac Jogues
French Jesuit Isaac Jogues was captured near the St. Lawrence in August 1642, beaten, and tortured — his fingernails torn out and fingers mutilated, leaving him permanently disfigured. Held a slave for some thirteen months, he kept ministering through his captivity, instructing and baptizing dying captives and infants. He escaped with Dutch help in 1643, returned to France, then went back as a missionary and was killed with a tomahawk in 1646; he was canonized in 1930. (Compiled and translated from Jogues's French and Latin letters by editor John Gilmary Shea, 1856.)
The changed life
Maimed and enslaved, Jogues went on baptizing in secret among the people torturing him — and freely returned to the Mohawk country that had broken his hands, knowing it would cost his life.
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