Saint Anthony Daniel
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- Also known as
- Antoine Daniel
- Memorial
- 19 October
- Profile
- Jesuit on 1 October 1621.
Ordained in 1629.
Missionary to Canada in 1632, stationed at Cape Breton and Bias-d'or Lakes.
Missionary to the Huron at Ihonatiria from July 1634 until his death.
Founded the first boy's college in North America at Quebec in 1635.
Martyred in a chapel in which he had just celebrated Mass.
One of the Jesuit Martyrs of North America.
- Born
- 27 May 1601 at Dieppe, Normandy, France
- Died
- shot with arrows and burned to death on 4 July 1648 by Iroquois at Teanaostae, near Hillsdale, Limcoe County, Ontario, Canada
- Canonized
- 29 June 1930 by Pope Pius XI
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia
Catholic Online
Google Directory
New Catholic Dictionary
Saint Antoine Daniel Catholic School, Victoria Harbour, Ontario, Canada
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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