Chabanel Noel


Jesuit missionary in the Huron country, 1643. Had been

a professor of rhetoric in France, before coming to Canada. When the

Hurons were driven from their country by the Iroquois, in 1649, he and

Garnier led their demoralized flock to the Island of St. Joseph, in

Matchadash Bay, an inlet of Georgian Bay. Even here the Iroquois

followed them, and attacked the mission of St. Jean, Dec. 7, 1649.

Chabanel had left the place a short time before, and so escaped the

general massacre. He, however, fell a victim to one of his own Hurons,

who confessed that he had murdered the missionary and thrown his body

into a river. =Index=: (Bishop Laval era) Died a martyr, 62. =Bib.=: Parkman, Jesuits

in North America.



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