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The death and afterlife of the North American martyrs / Emma Anderson.

By: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674726161
  • 0674726162
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Death and afterlife of the North American martyrsDDC classification:
  • 272/.909713 23
LOC classification:
  • BX3707 .A53 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. A Spectacle for Men and Angels -- 2. The Blood of Martyrs Is the Seed of Christians -- 3. Souvenirs des Jesuites -- 4. For Canada and for God -- 5. Bones of Contention -- 6. The Naked and the Dead -- 7. Pilgrims' Progress.
Summary: In the 1640s eight Jesuits met a terrifying death at the hands of native antagonists. In 1930 they were canonized as North America's first saints. The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs illuminates these seminal acts of violence and charts their ever-changing, controversial legacy, or "afterlife," across almost four centuries.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

1. A Spectacle for Men and Angels -- 2. The Blood of Martyrs Is the Seed of Christians -- 3. Souvenirs des Jesuites -- 4. For Canada and for God -- 5. Bones of Contention -- 6. The Naked and the Dead -- 7. Pilgrims' Progress.

In the 1640s eight Jesuits met a terrifying death at the hands of native antagonists. In 1930 they were canonized as North America's first saints. The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs illuminates these seminal acts of violence and charts their ever-changing, controversial legacy, or "afterlife," across almost four centuries.

In English.

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