The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs / Emma Anderson.
Anderson, Emma, author.
2013
BX3707 .A53 2013eb
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Title The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs / Emma Anderson.
Author Anderson, Emma, author.
ISBN 9780674726161
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726161
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 25 halftones
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674726161 doi
Call Number BX3707 .A53 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 272 .909713
Summary In the 1640s, eight Jesuit missionaries met their deaths at the hands of native antagonists. With their collective canonization in 1930, these men became North America's first saints. Emma Anderson untangles the complexities of these seminal acts of violence and their ever-changing legacy across the centuries. While exploring how Jesuit missionaries perceived their terrifying final hours, she also seeks to comprehend the motivations of those who confronted them from the other side of the axe, musket, or caldron of boiling water, and to illuminate the experiences of those native Catholics who, though they died alongside their missionary mentors, have yet to receive comparable recognition as martyrs. In tracing the creation and evolution of the cult of the martyrs across the centuries, Anderson reveals the ways in which both believers and detractors have honored andpreserved the memory of the martyrs in this "afterlife," and how their powerful story has been continually reinterpreted in the collective imagination. As rival shrines rose on either side of the U.S.-Canadian border, these figures would both unite and deeply divide natives and non-natives, francophones and anglophones, Protestants and Catholics, Canadians and Americans, forging a legacy as controversial as it has been enduring.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Prologue
1. A Spectacle for Men and Angels
2. The Blood of Martyrs Is the Seed of Christians
3. Souvenirs des Jésuites
4. For Canada and for God
5. Bones of Contention
6. The Naked and the Dead
7. Pilgrims' Progress
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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