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Charles Garnier, a Parisian, a Jesuit, and a priest, On December 7th, 1649 he was a victim of the Iroquois massacre of the village of Etharita, thirty miles from Ste. Marie. Even when mortally wounded, he tried to assist a Huron who had also received his death wound. A blow of an Iroquois tomahawk sent his pure soul on its flight to God. Saint Charles Garnier was always a person of innocence and purity with a strong devotion to Our Lady whom he acknowledged looked after him as a youth and to whom he owed his vocation to the Society of Jesus. Gentle, innocent, fearless, he succeeded in winning many souls to God both at St. Joseph’s Mission and among the Petuns. Replete with every gift of nature and grace, converts were won to the faith and moved to devotion at the mere sight of his angelic face and all who came in contact with him took away a deep impression of his virtue. .
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