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Gabriel Lalemant (3 October 1610 – 17 March 1649) was a French Jesuit missionary in New France beginning in 1646. Caught up in warfare between the Huron and nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, he was killed in St. Ignace by Mohawk warriors and is one of the eight Canadian Martyrs.
Gabriel Lalemant (1610-1649), a Jesuit at 19 and a priest at 27, was a scholar, professor and a college administrator, delicate in body but strong in desire for the mission of Huronia. After seven months there he was able to speak the native language.
Saint Gabriel Lalemant, SJ. Born :October 10, 1632. Died : March 17, 1649. Beatified : June 21, 1925. Canonized : June 29, 1930. Gabriel Lalemant was born in Paris and educated at Clermont College. He entered the Jesuit novitiate at nineteen.
Nov 18, 2018 · Lalemant, GABRIEL, Jesuit missionary, b. at Paris, October 10, 1610; d. in the Huron country, March 17, 1649. He was the nephew of Charles and Jerome Lalemant, and became a Jesuit at Paris, March 24, 1630.
LALEMANT, GABRIEL, priest, Jesuit, missionary and martyr; canonized by Pope Pius XI, 29 June 1930; b. 3 Oct. 1610 in Paris; killed by the Iroquois 17 March 1649. Gabriel Lalemant was the son of a lawyer in the judicial court (Parlement) of Paris.
Gabriel, the nephew of Charles and Jerome, arrived in Quebec only many years after his uncles, but his martyrdom at the hands of the Iroquois in March 1649 has given him the place of honor among these splendid 17th century Lalemants. Our martyr was born in Paris, October 31, 1610.
Apr 13, 2013 · We are being renewed by the example of the Jesuit Martyrs of North America, men such as Saint Gabriel Lalemant, one of the group of eight martyrs. Gabriel Lalemant was born on October 31, 1610 in Paris, the third of six children of a gifted French lawyer. Religious commitment ran deep in the family. Five of the children entered ...
