Title: What makes a hero? or a saint?
Product review: Jean De Brebeuf was born a noble in France. He was a giant of a man, physically as well as spiritually, and blessed with an uncanny knack for learning languages.He gave up the comfortable life and food of France to travel to America to try to convert the Hurons, none of whom welcomed him. The suffering he endured during the next few years is simply unbelievable. Time and again, he broke bones, ignored tormenting pain, crawled through snowdrifts, was abandoned, starved, beaten, and rejected, and yet he still persevered.At some point, he began to have visions. He saw the Virgin Mary, "a ravishing beauty...decorated with gold embroidery..I experienced great admiration and love of God" (p 171).His death at the hands of the Iroquois makes for grim reading. Yet Brebeuf and his companion, Father Lalemant, endured it with patience. "The Iroquois could elicit no moan of pain from Jean de Brebeuf who suffered...without uttering any cry" (p 277).
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