JOGUES, zhe.)g. Is.vAc (1607-46). A Jesuit missionary to the North American Indians, born in France. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1624, and in 1636 was ordained and sent to the Huron mission, then the most dangerous of all which the Society maintained in the New World. There he labored until 1639, when he was chosen for the new and even more perilous mission among the Tobacco Nation. Two years later he made the long and arduous journey to Sault Sainte _Marie, where he preached to an assem blage of 2000 Algonquins, and soon after his re turn lie set out for Three Rivers to procure sup plies for the Huron mission. As he was cross ing the Lake of Saint Peter on 16s return he and his companion, Goupil. were captured by the Iroquois. The prisoners were taken to the Mo hawk villages and fearfully tortured. Goupil was finally killed. but Jogues was kept as a slave. His pitiable condition excited the com passion of Dominie Megapolensi: and other Dutchmen at Rensselaerswyek, who finally suc ceeded in smuggling him aboard a vessel, which conveyed him down to New Amsterdam. where Director-General Kieft received him kindly and sent him to France. The story of his sufferings had preceded him, and on his arrival he was re ceived as a hero; even the Queen showed him marked attention, and the Pope gave him a special dispensation which enabled him to say mass de spite the mutilated condition of his hands. He
soon returned to Canada, however, and two years afterwards again went to the Mohawk villages: hut this time as an ambassador from the Cana dian Government and as the founder of a new mission. the Mission of the Martyrs. Having accomplished his political object, which was to confirm the Mohawks in their adhesion to a re cently sighed treaty of peace, he returned to Quebec. but after a council with the superiors of his Order once more went to work among, the Mohawks. There having been a change in the feelings of the Indians. he was soon subjected to torture, and finally one night as he entered a lodge to which he had been invited for a feast a savage sprang from the darkness and struck him dead. The place of his martyrdom, 0—er nenon. near Anriesville. N. Y., has become a place of pilgrimage to Roman Catholics. Consult: Pa rkina n, The Jesuits in North AIM' riot i Boston. 1S(14: new d.. I SOS): :Martin. Father Isaac ,lognes (Shea's translation, New York. 15961 : Camille he Rochementeix. LeS Test t ea ?ma Prance ( Paris. 15951: and Thwaite: The Jcsuit Relations (73 vol:., Cleveland. 1000 02 ) .