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Midland: Charles Bray took this picture of Saint Gabriel Lalemant below the Altar inside the Martyr’s Shrine Church. Gabriel Lalemant was born in Paris, on October 10th 1610. He was the nephew of Charles and Jerome Lalemant, and became a Jesuit in Paris, on March 24th 1630. He arrived in Canada on September 20th 1646 and after remaining in Quebec for two years, was sent to the Huron missions as de Brébeuf's assistant. He was scarcely there a month when the Iroquois attacked the settlement of St. Ignatius which they burned, and then descended on the mission of St. Louis where they found de Brebeuf and Lalemant. After setting fire to the village and killing many of the inhabitants, they led the two priests back to St. Ignatius where they were tied to stakes, and after horrible torture put to death.
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