ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 17th of March WELCOME! SAINT GABRIEL LALEMANT, MISSIONARY AND MARTYR [Saint Gabriel Lalemant] was a Jesuit missionary, born at Paris, October 10, 1610; he died in the Huron country, March 17, 1649. HIS ARRIVAL IN CANADA He was the nephew of Charles and Jerome Lalemant, and became a Jesuit at Paris, March 24 , 1630 . He arrived in Canada, September 20 , 1646 and after remaining in Quebec for two years, was sent to the Huron missions as de Bébeuf ’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 Bébeuf and Lalemant. THEIR MARTYR'S CROWN 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. Lalemant s...