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St Anthony Daniel, missionary, teacher & martyr
I imagine St Antoine Daniel as a tall, gaunt figure, dressed in the black robes of a Jesuit priest, with a big smile spreading across his face as he steps from a Huron canoe. That’s how he is described by one of his fellow priests as he returns to Quebec from the Jesuit missions in Huronia. As one of the North American Martyrs, St. Anthony Daniel spent sixteen years serving as a missionary in eastern Canada and the US in the 1600s.
Father Antoine Daniel possessed an unusual talent for making friends quickly and for handling children. ~ John A. O’Brien
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St Anthony Daniel’s Childhood
Saint Anthony Daniel was born in Dieppe, France, in 1601. His father was a merchant and Antoine grew up with three brothers. He joined the Jesuit order at age twenty, after completing three years of university—two in philosophy and one in law. From 1623 – 1632, he taught in Jesuit colleges in France.
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Antoine Daniel
French Jesuit missionary and martyr (1601-1648)
For the video maker, see Antoine Daniel (YouTuber).
Antoine Daniel (French pronunciation:[ɑ̃twandanjɛl]; 27 May 1601 – 4 July 1648) was a French Jesuit missionary in North America, at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the eight Canadian Martyrs.[1]
Life
Daniel was born at Dieppe, in Normandy, on 27 May 1601. After two years' study of philosophy and one year of law, Daniel entered the Society of Jesus in Rouen on 1 October 1621. He was a teacher of junior classes at the Collège in Rouen from 1623 to 1627.[2] In 1627 he was sent to the College of Clermont in Paris to study theology. In 1630, Daniel was ordained to the priesthood. He then taught at the College at Eu.[3]
In 1632, Daniel and Ambroise Davost set sail for New France. Daniel's brother Charles was a sea-captain in the employ of the De Caen Company of France, representing Protestant-Huguenot interests. Captain Daniel had a French fort on Cape Breton Island in 1629.[4] They arrived at St. A
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Saint Anthony Daniel
Anthony Daniel (1601-1648) was inspired to become a missionary to New France after meeting a Huron youth studying in Rouen, France, and then Father John de Brébeuf, a missionary recently exiled from the Huron mission. Daniel was a recently ordained priest teaching in the Jesuit college in Eu where he met Brébeuf who was to become his language tutor a few years later in Quebec after the experienced missionary returned to the missions.
In 1634 Daniel set out on his first trip to Huronia, along with Brébeuf. An epidemic was devastating the whole area and made the missionary work more difficult because people suspected that the priests brought the disease. Daniel addressed the issue and won people's confidence; he experienced success in his work at Taendeuiata, especially with children whom he taught the commandments and prayers set to music. The mission superior asked him to return to Quebec a year later to head the boys' school that they were starting. Parents were reluctant to let their sons leave home, so few students went to the school which soon closed. D