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Midland: Charles Bray took this picture of the Eight Saints in which the Shrine honours the eight Jesuit saints who lived, worked and died here. In 1649 the Iroquois came raiding into the north. One by one, the Huron villages fell before the Iroquois and five of the missionaries fell in Martyrdom. All through Huronia the smoke rose from the burning and destruction. To the end, the Martyrs bore themselves with that strange, benign dignity of holy office -- looking with eyes full of compassion upon those who thought that the death of a man was the end of faith.
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