Jesuit Missionary executed by Haudenosaunee

March 16, 1649

Jesuit Missionary executed by Haudenosaunee Martyrdom of the Jesuits This composite view of the torture and death of the blackrobes of Huronia (Gabriel Lalemant left and Jean de Brébeuf right) in 1649 was one of the most powerful images distributed of the New World, not least for its value as propaganda. (courtesy Library and Archives Canada).
Jesuit missionary Jean de Brébeuf was executed by the Haudenosaunee on March 16, 1649. Fellow missionary, Charles Lalemant died the following day. These deaths were exploited by the Jesuits for propaganda purposes, to coninue their colonizing missions.