One of the eight Jesuits canonized in 1930 as the Martyrs of North America, St. Gabriel Lalemant (1610-1649) was a companion in martyrdom of the indefatigable St. Jean de Brébeuf. When the Iroquois attacked the Huron town of St. Ignace (Taenhatentaron) on March 16th 1649, Lalemant and Brébeuf were captured with their Huron flock and slowly and horribly tortured to death out of demonic hatred for the faith of Christ.

From the eyewitness accounts of Hurons who escaped the slaughter, Father Paul Ragueneau composed this account of the deaths of the two great martyrs. He concludes with a short recounting of Lalemant’s innocence and purity, including an invaluable excerpt from the saint’s own private papers in which this man of "very delicate constitution" willingly offered himself as a spiritual victim for the salvation of others. Through a gruesome night of torture longer and more intense even than that of the stalwart Brébeuf, all his intense physical sufferings were, in Ragueneau’s words, "finally crowned with immortal glory."

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