The Jesuits and the Iroquois | Cornelius Michael Buckley, S.J. | Foreword
to Jesuit Missionaries to North America: Spiritual Writings and Biographical
Sketches by Francois Roustang, S.J.
The
story of the early Jesuit missionaries who arrived in North America between
1632 and 1637 is a remarkable by all accounts. For twenty long years,
they toiled alone and unaided in the vast, wild regions of eastern Canada,
bearing the hardships of a harsh climate, scarcity of food and inadequate
lodging, as well as the constant menace of those inhabitants they had
come to evangelize. Nevertheless, they worked and prayed unceasingly and
bore all these hardships for the love of Christ and the salvation of souls,
being filled with joy at the opportunity to suffer and bear fruit for
our Lord. Jesuit
Missionaries to North America: Spiritual Writings and Biographical Sketches
by Francois Roustang, S.J., tells the story of these courageous and
devoted men, drawing upon excerpts from their own writings. In the foreword,
excerpted below, Cornelius Michael Buckley, S.J., outlines the historical
and cultural background to this fascinating era of American and Jesuit
history.
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