Jean de Brébeuf: Saint Among the Hurons

by Francis X. Talbot

Book Overview

The Hurons stared at the giant young Norman, as tall and broad as they, a Jesuit priest robed in black and with a full black beard on his gentle face. He was to live among them for nineteen years, patiently and with enormous difficulty learning their ways and language. He would eat their raw bear and moose meat, paddle many months and many miles in their canoes, build his rough chapel surrounded by their long houses, and win their respect and love,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621641880
• ISBN13: 9781621641889
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"