St isaac jogues biography books
Saint Among Savages: The Life Of Isaac Jogues - amazon.com
Reprint, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2002. pp. 468. $17.95 pb.
Saint Among Savages: The Life of Isaac Jogues - Google Books
ISBN 0-89870-913-x (paper).
Reviewed by William A. CLARK, S.J., College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 01610
In 1646, ten years after first arriving in New France, Isaac Jogues, S.J., was murdered by Mohawks, against the wishes of their tribal leadership, in what is now upstate New York. He had earlier endured torture and a year of captivity in the same place, but was returning after a negotiated peace to establish a mission among his former captors.
In 1930, Jogues was canonized a saint, and five years later Francis X. Talbot, S.J., published his biography. Its style was calculated to make a powerful statement, amidst a skeptical culture, about the place of honor which Catholicism had occupied in American history from colonial times. In 2002, Ignatius Press reprinted Talbot's text, as it has reprinted so many Catholic classics of the first half of the 20th century.
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