Overview

Noël Chabanel was a priest, Jesuit and missionary to the Hurons. He was a brilliant teacher of rhetoric in France. Chabanel was sent to Nouvelle France in 1643 and appointed to the mission at Sainte-Marie. Despite feeling a strong loathing for the life and habits of the Hurons, he bound himself by vow never to leave the mission. He was one of the "eight Canadian martyrs". Chabanel was martyred on 8 December 1649 by a renegade Huron.

He was murdered by Louis Honarreennha, who stated, in a confession to Father Ragueneau, that he had killed Chabanel because of his hatred for the faith.

Les martyrs canadiens

Les martyrs canadiens étaient huit missionnaires jésuites à Sainte-Marie-au-pays-des-Hurons, qui furent tués au XVIIe siècle au Canada. Ils furent tués lors des guerres entre les Hurons et les Iroquois. Ces saints catholiques sont liturgiquement commémorés le 19 octobre par l'Église catholique, ou le 26 septembre au Canada. Les huit martyrs canadiens sont : Jean de Brébeuf, Noël Chabanel, Antoine Daniel, Charles Garnier, René Goupil, Jean de Lalande, Gabriel Lalemant et Isaac Jogues. Les martyrs canadiens furent canonisés par le pape Pie XI en 1930.

Ils sont collectivement des saints patrons secondaires du Canada. La paroisse francophone de Saskatoon en Saskatchewan est également placée sous la protection des saints martyrs canadiens, tout comme celle de Pont-Landry (Nouveau-Brunswick).

The Canadian Martyrs, also known as the North American Martyrs or the Martyrs of New France, were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, who were tortured and martyred on various dates in the mid-17th century in New France, in what are now southern Ontario and upstate New York, during the warfare between the Iroquois and the Huron. They are Jean de Brébeuf, Noël Chabanel, Antoine Daniel, Charles Garnier, René Goupil, Isaac Jogues, Jean de Lalande and Gabriel Lalemant. They were all canonized as saints in the Roman Catholic Church in 1930.

Profiles Connexes

• Jean de Brébeuf
• Antoine Daniel
• Charles Garnier
• Rene Goupil
• Isaac Jogues
• Jean de Lalande
• Gabriel Lalemant

Sources

• Location info: Huronie
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• Wikipedia

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