The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-09-23

)LlC BULLE lin, SEF i ENl
of Rites. The candidate first becomes
THE venerable stage to which
the case of Father iJogues has pro
crossed. Next heffs the blessed" and |
at last saint whereupon an office is |
prepared for him and a special Mass, |
his name is assigned a feast day in |
the calendar and may be invoked as
intercessor in public prayers.
There are degrees of honor. Not to |
go too deeply into canonical law, the |
| lower degree is Identification, which in
general means that the holy man thus
| honored may be venerated and in
voked in prayer, and such an honor is
| likely to be local in scope. The SUI
preme veneratiOn is sainthood, which
involves canonization, in effect pre-
| cept from the pontiff that the saint
shall be honored by the Church at
large. 1t is to the higher stage OF
| full sainthOod that Father Jogues may
be elevated.
! On pleasant Sundays in summer
sometimes as many as 1000 or 5000
pilgrims make their way to Auriesville
to pay their devotions there and to go
over the historic ground, one of the
cradles of Christianity in the New
World These pilgrimages have been
made for 80 years, the first having
taken place August Is, 1884, the an
niversary Of the date on which the
Jesuit missionary entered the Indian
village as a captive. The pilgrims
visit the shrine built in that year; they
make the Stations of the Cross in the
open; many of them receive commu-
Mon and they retrace the steps of the
martyr. Going down the ravine in the
afternoon they hear sermon which
ordinarily deals with the history of
the missionaries. ~
The site was located through the
joint efforts and zeal of Catholics and
Professionals. leaders in, this work
were John Culinary Shea, a Catholic.
historian and student, and Gen. j. S.
Clarke. a: Protestant student Of early
American history. 1t took them years,
but at last they were positive, from
Father Jogues' letters, from other con-
temporary documents and from tradi
tion surviving in the locality, that
Auriesville was the exact spot of the
martyrdom. Father Jogues died there
October 10, 1916. Two years before
the missionary Bressani had been tor
tured there and later Poncet. A per-
manent mission was established on the
spot in 1867 and Tegakwitha, the
famous Indian Christian maiden, was
born there. The site was purchased in
1884 by the Rev. %Joseph Loyzance,
pastor of st. Joseph,s, Troy. When.
Father .Jogues has been raised to- the
dignity of a saint permanent and hand
some buildings will replace the tenn
porary edifices. .s
Father Jogues a Native of France.
Isaac Jogues was born in the shadow
of the Cathedral at Orleans, France
January 10, 1907. He was one of the
first pupils in the Jesuit College of
that city, and then he. entered the
novitiate at Rouen. He, taught in the
College of Rouen and then went to
, Paris to take his course in theology.
after he celebrated his first Mass he
set sail for Canada. After incredible
hardships, including long illness in
the Wilderness, hisplWork among the
Indians began, to bear fruit in cons
Verts. Il.
He was taken captive August 3,
1912, by the Iroquois. They stripped
| al q
feet, tore out his nails and crushed the
bones on his forefingers. This was re-
peated at every village they reached,
the captives being thus displayed and
tortured for the amusement of the
savages. Arriving at AuriesVille, then
called Ossernenof9 Father Jogues was
submitted to tOrtures which are better
slave, with Rene Goupil and William
Couture, his lay companions. Goupil
was killed for making the sign of the
cross on the forehead of an Indian
child. Father Jogues escaped almost
C exactly a year later and he arrived in
France in January, 1644.
!. The Queen Regent, Anne of Austria,
s loaded him with honors and wept over
s. his manned hands. Pope Urban VIII.
e granted a petition circulated to permit
f Father Jogues to say Mass despite his
e mutilated hands. But the missionary
s insisted on being permitted to return
: to the Indians, among whom, despite
:, his captivity, he had. succeeded SCI
S cretly in making many converts. At
f last he was permitted by his super
( Tors to go. He did valuable service
h in helping to make a treaty between
|. the French and various tribes.
But some time later, when the Iro-
e quois split from their late allies, he
was recaptured October Is, 1916. At a
n great council of chiefs in neighbor.
e ing village it was decided to set him
It free, but when the delegates from the
j. powwow arrived at Ossernenon with
e the news they were confronted with
r Father Jogues' head on pole at the
It entrance to the village.