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 Martyrs' Shrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Martyrs’ Shrine is a Roman Catholic church in Midland, Ontario, Canada, which is consecrated to the memory of the Canadian Martyrs, eight Jesuit martyrs from the mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons.
John M. Filion, provincial superior of Jesuits in Canada, decided to pursue the construction of a larger church closer to the mission, and purchased the Standin farm in Midland, across the road from Sainte-Marie.
The martyrs were subsequently canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1930.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martyrs'_Shrine   (264 words)

  
 Canadian Catholic Radio
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Canadian Christians are called in Baptism to witness to their faith in Christ and to be actively involved to confront the challenges to faith and morals present in our government, our workplace, our media, our educational institutions, and even in our homes.
Canadian Catholic Radio is striving to meet the requirements of the CRTC for religious broadcasting in Canada when applying for a broadcasting licence.
www.canadiancatholicradio.ca /about_ccr.html   (766 words)

  
 Domestic-Church.Com: Saint Profile: Canadian Martyrs
The men known today as The Canadian Martyrs were among the hardy and brave missionaries who brought the Gospel to the Huron and Iroquis people in the United States and Canada.
O God, who by the preaching and the blood of your blessed Martyrs, John and Isaac and their companions, consecrated the first fruits of the faith in the vast regions of North America, graciously grant that by their intercession the flourishing harvest of Christians may be everywhere and always increased.
O God, who inflamed the hearts of your blessed Martyrs with an admirable zeal for the salvation of souls, grant me, I beseech you, my petitions and all the requests recommended here today, so that the favours obtained through their intercession may make manifest before men the power and the glory of your name.
www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19980901/SAINTS/CANADIAN.HTM   (2023 words)

  
 Lives of the Saints, September 26, The Holy North American Martyrs, Saint Cyprian and Justina
The Holy North American Martyrs are eight in number; five died in what is now Canada, three in what is now the United States.
The great missionary Isaac Jogues was martyred, as it were, twice; after being surprised by the Iroquois while traveling, he might have escaped from the midst of his Hurons who were being seized at the same time, but did not want to abandon them.
Father Jogues succeeded in burying his young assistant, at once calling him a martyr, because slain in hatred of God and the Church, and of their sign which is the Cross, and while exercising ardent charity towards his neighbor.
magnificat.ca /cal/engl/09-26.htm   (1726 words)

  
 Canadian Bishops’ Permanent Council
Beatified in 1925 and then canonized in 1930 by Pius XI, the Canadian Martyrs were proclaimed the secondary patrons of Canada by Pius XII on 16 October 1940—St Joseph remains our country's primary patron.
As we begin the new millennium and find ourselves challenged to undertake a new evangelization, we are encouraged by the witness of the Canadian Martyrs and their devotion to Christ, as well as by their courageous zeal and spirit of prayer.
Fortunately, their memory is also kept alive in a special way at the Martyrs' Shrine in Midland, Ontario—the scene for a significant part of their mission work and which is located in the general region where five of them actually died.
www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/CNDMRTRS.HTM   (2208 words)

  
 New monument upholds reverence for life - Interim, September 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Over 200 observers were on hand for the solemn unveiling of a pro-life monument just outside Toronto's Canadian Martyrs Church on July 26th in the city's east end.
Father Richard A. Love, pastor of Canadian Martyrs, was congratulated for spearheading the installation of the memorial, with the valuable support of the Knights of Columbus and other parishioners.
The congregations of Canadian Martyrs are accustomed to heaving and learning about the life issues from Fr.
www.theinterim.com /sept97/13newmon.html   (255 words)

  
 Tamil war casts long shadow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
That's why Tamils are drawn to the Canadian Martyrs' Shrine; an all-encompassing sense of piety is rooted in the Hindu practice of bhakti or devotion.
Canadian Tamils who have visited the refugee camp have vouched for the operation, he adds.
And in January, a special Canadian Senate committee issued a report on security and intelligence that identified charitable fundraising in Canada by international terrorist groups as a problem, and recommended changes to the Income Tax Act.
www.tamiltigers.net /tamilcanadian/canada9908a.html   (1135 words)

  
 Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
OTTAWA, SEP 17 (ZENIT).- In a pastoral letter published to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the death of Canada's martyrs, the Canadian Episcopal Conference emphasized that through their extraordinary witness, they continue to transmit those Christian values that are so often challenged by today's world, which, however, can regenerate the spiritual fabric of contemporary societies.
They were martyred later by other tribes between 1642 and 1649, some in the Canadian province of Ontario, and others in the territory of the United States.
The witness the Canadian martyrs give, above all, is of the love of Christ and of their brothers to the point of giving their life.
www.zenit.org /english/archive/9909/ZE990917.html   (4582 words)

  
 wcr:09/20/1999 -- WCR News Highlights for September 20, 1999
More than a third of Canadian children under the age of 12 attend religious services at least once a month but Catholics are near the bottom of the scale when it comes to weekly attendance.
On the eve of a new millennium, the Catholic Church in Canada is turning to its roots in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the deaths of the eight Jesuit missionaries known as the Canadian Martyrs.
The eight Canadian (or North American) Martyrs were Jean de Brebeuf, Antoine Daniel, Gabriel Lalemant, Charles Garnier, Noel Chabanel, Isaac Jogues and lay volunteer workers Rene Goupil and Jean de La Lande.
www.wcr.ab.ca /news/1999/0920/newshighlites092099.shtml   (414 words)

  
 Fr. John M. Filion, S.J. -- Manresa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Milway Filion is unique in the history of Canadian Jesuits in having held the office of Provincial Superior in both the mainly French-speaking Province of Canada and in the English-speaking Vice-Province of Upper Canada.
On the first anniversary of the Martyrs' beatification, 25 June 1926, Cardinal O'Connell of Boston blessed the new shrine, and on the following day it was solemnly inaugurated by seven Canadian bishops led by Archbishop McNeil of Toronto.
His decision to promote the Jesuit Martyrs of New France officially as "Canadian Martyrs" is credited as having been decisive in winning over the Vatican authorities.
www.manresa-canada.ca /filion.htm   (1662 words)

  
 Friends in the Lord
Len Altilia, SJ, and Jesuit scholastics Michael Knox and Ramon Calzada, ANIA 2002 was conceived as a pilgrimage to sacred sites and into their history to ask for the graces the young pilgrims need to live in the contemporary world.
Canadian Jesuits got the word out about ANIA 2002 via a website, www.jesuits.ca/ania2002 The 700 who attended lived in huge tents for five days and made hiking pilgrimages to sacred and historical sites around the Martyrs' Shrine in Midland, Ontario.
Each pilgrim had the chance to reverence the relics of the saints and to touch the remains of the posts to which the martyrs were tied and tortured.
www.companymagazine.org /v201/friendsinthelord.htm   (1494 words)

  
 Canadian Martyrs
The Canadian Martyrs gave up their lives, in their attempt to help the indigenous people hear and believe the teachings of Jesus Christ.
We are fortunate to be located adjacent to Canadian Martyrs Church and close the Canadian Martyrs Shrine in Midland, Ontario.
Anniversary of the school in 2002 with a liturgy, family party and community pilgrimage to Canadian Martyrs Shrine.
www.tcdsb.org /schools/canadianmartyrs.asp   (400 words)

  
 SAINTS LIVED HERE The Story of the Martyr's Shrine by JG Shaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He stands near where the Martyrs were buried in that ground; more precisely, in that little bit of earth 7 feet, 4 inches long and 3 feet, 6 inches wide.1 He looks at it and cannot help but say a prayer.
Noel Chabanel, the last of the eight canonized martyrs to die, was tomahawked by an apostate Huron along the Nottawasaga River on December 8.
In recent years, national pilgrimages of Canadians from many different lands of origin have added their own flavour to a continuity between Ste-Marie as it was yesterday and as it is today.
www.wyandot.org /saints.htm   (13236 words)

  
 Freedom is More Than Just the Freedom to Make Money - Christianity.ca
At the very least, it is an affront to the sacrificial work of Canadian pioneers like Jonathon and Rosalind Goforth who, as Presbyterian missionaries in the late 1800's, dedicated their lives to give the masses in China the right to freedom of religious conscience.
They and hundreds of highly educated Canadian missionaries knew they were arriving in a China where national and expatriate Christians were being martyred, yet they went to assist in the educational and medical development of China without compromising their commitment to sharing the Christian message with those whom they served.
As part of The Voice of the Martyrs, a Canadian organization dedicated to assisting persecuted Christian believers around the world, I have seen absolutely no improvement in China's religious liberty policies as a result of economic reforms.
www.christianity.ca /news/commentary/2004/11.002.html   (1054 words)

  
 North American Martyrs
Bishops and Cardinals from the countries of the Martyrs, reflect on the roles of the Martyrs.
and the promulgator for the cause of Beatification of the Mexican Martyrs.
Come to the Martyrs Shrine in Midland, Canada, and the Mission of Sainte Marie among the Hurons, where the five Canadian Martyrs, Saints John de Brébuf, Gabriel Lalemant, Antony Daniel, Charles Garnier and Noel Chabanel had their missions and not only brought the natives the Gospel, they taught them, speaking in their own language.
www.bobandpennylord.com /north.htm   (380 words)

  
 Community
The two other portals house a shrine for the eight Canadian Martyrs and a niche for the Virgin Mary that also serves as a focus for the baptismal font.
The high windows at both the north and south ends of the church and the skylights above the altar symbolize the light of God and also serve the practical purposes of providing natural light and shielding the church from the busy everyday life of the traffic outside the building.
Canadian Martyrs Church in Richmond, B.C. was dedicated in March 2003
www.nemetz.com /community.htm   (286 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Roman Catholic Church
The first Canadian martyrs were a number of Jesuits killed by Indians in the 1640s.
As a result of 19th- and 20th-century immigration, the Roman Catholic Church in Canada grew rapidly, and it was removed from mission status in 1908.
Irish immigration in the early 1800s reduced the French Canadians to a minority among Catholics outside Québec and led to conflict over language and episcopal appointments.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573737_6/Roman_Catholic_Church.html   (395 words)

  
 Les Saints Martyrs Canadiens by Jack Warwick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Such is the stuff martyrs are made of and such is the tale told by Jr?3ome Lalemant about Isaac Jogues's steadfast devotion to Christian duty, heroic suffering under torture, and eventual death (18 October 1646) at the hands of the Iroquois.
It may be socially useful to debunk the old national myth of the Canadian martyrs and replace it with a strong pro-Indian bias, but most readers will resent finding this or any other good cause injected into the information.
Lalemant's provocative work has never been so well exposed to informed readership and it ought to attract new critical attention from all who are interested in the early contact period in Canada, in seventeenth-century religious institutions, and in case studies of the interplay between text and context.
www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/722/canadiens14.html   (650 words)

  
 Archdiocese of Toronto Millennium Study Kits - Recognizing Him in the Breaking of the Bread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
By proclaiming and venerating the holiness of her sons and daughters, the church gave supreme honor to God himself; in the martyrs she venerated Christ, who was at the origin of their martyrdom and of their holiness.
Fortunately, their memory is also kept alive in a special way at the Martyrs' Shrine in Midland, Ontario —; the scene for a significant part of their mission work and which is located in the general region where five of them actually died.
It is evident that the death of this martyr occurred in one of the persecutions that took place between the middle of the third century and the beginning of the fourth.
www.archtoronto.org /ter/jubilee/kits2000/V_recogni/recognizing.htm   (6888 words)

  
 open book: Martyrs
Posted by: fbc at Oct 19, 2005 2:21:52 PM Since the history of these martyrs is in my backyard, it's always been a favorite and I've never paid any attention to whether it's been called Canadian Martyrs or North American Martyrs.
Katei Tekakwitha, born into the Mohawk tribe (whose war party had captured the martyrs), anyway she was born 9 years after the martyrdom of Jogues and Brebeuf, became the first person born in North America to be beatified.
Posted by: Mary Kay at Oct 19, 2005 3:17:28 PM I'm going to hold out for "Canadian Martyrs": they were in what was, or was soon to become "Canada" (even though now part of that territory is in the USA); they were "Canadiens" because they were a) French and b) not in Acadia or Louisiana.
amywelborn.typepad.com /openbook/2005/10/martyrs.html   (3492 words)

  
 Catholic World News : Canadian tax authority warns churches to be silent
Janet Buckingham, legal counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC), and Jennifer Leddy, legal counsel for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, were warned by revenue officials that should they become involved in "partisan" political activity during the then-upcoming 2004 federal election they would risk losing their tax-exempt status.
According to the federal agency, to avoid being "partisan" means not addressing issues on which the competing political parties have opposing views.
Does anyone think the IRS under the control of a liberal Democrat with socialist tendencies would not do the same in the good ol US of A? Remember, a Catholic Senator from the same state as Senator Kerry tried to pass an ammendment to the federal hate crime bill by adding "sexual preferences".
www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=31431   (1259 words)

  
 Excerpts from the Province Newsletter -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
We are inviting our youth to Martyrs= Shrine in Midland, Ontario (an hour and a half north of Toronto) - where our Canadian martyrs ministered, ate, slept and gave their lives to witness to the gospels.
This peace pole is carved from Canadian white pine and is modelled to resemble the great round towers that are unique to Ireland and range from 13ft to 120ft in height.
As a Canadian Jesuit, in our time of diminishing numbers, it was particularly good and important to be able to spend such quality time with three of the younger members of our sister province of French Canada.
www.jesuits.ca /items/newsletter/excerpts.htm   (6815 words)

  
 Les Saints Martyrs CanadienHistoire du Mythe by Jack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Thus was launched the ''myth' of the Canadian martyrs, institutionalized in school systems as a national epic.
All ''histoire evenementielle' is to be deconstructed along with the Canadian martyrs it has created.
Second, the conflicting accounts of sanctified ''events' are dispersed in about four different places; while each chapter has its own logic, it is hard for readers to apply their own judgment to specific cases such as the death of No?4el Chabanel, an outstanding example of misrepresentation.
www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/703/canadiens15.html   (600 words)

  
 Toronto pro-lifers mourn the loss of Tom Brown - Interim, October 1999
Father Richard Love of Canadian Martyrs Catholic Church in Toronto was Brown's pastor and spiritual director.
He and wife Barbara were also preparing a Canadian Martyrs parish pilgrimage to the Holy Land at the time of his death.
His funeral Mass was celebrated September 4 at Canadian Martyrs Catholic Church in east-end Toronto.
www.theinterim.com /1999/oct/23tombrown.html   (1128 words)

  
 The Canadian Martyrs - Christianity.ca
Rene Goupil was the first of the eight Canadian martyrs.
The best-known missionary martyrs are Jean de Brebeuf and Gabriel Lalemant.
The martyred missionaries knew something more: All, without exception, are beneficiaries of the One whose outstretched arms embraced eight brave men, and through them embraced, without reservation, Huron, Iroquois, French and English—all of whom may call, "Lord, remember me."
www.christianity.ca /church/history/2004/10.000.html   (1084 words)

  
 Sainte-Marie among the Hurons- History Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Located on Highway 12, opposite Martyrs' Shrine, Sainte-Marie was headquarters of the French Jesuit mission to the Hurons and was the first European community in Ontario.
In 1639 the Society of Jesus, along with lay workers, began construction of this palisaded community that would include a hospital, a church, residences, workshops, and shelters for Native visitors.
Visit the Church of Saint Joseph, where Pope John Paul II prayed at the grave of two Canadian Martyrs.
www.geocities.com /sharut/aboutus.html   (176 words)

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