Jean de Lalande, SJ (died October 19, 1646) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and one of the eight

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. He was killed at the Mohawk village of Ossernenon after being captured by warriors.

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Jean de Lalande was a native of

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, Normandy. He arrived in

New France New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by Kingdom of France, France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to King ...

at the age of nineteen to serve with the Jesuits in

as a ''donné'', a lay brother. In late September 1646, Lalande was a member of a party led by Jesuit

Isaac Jogues Isaac Jogues, S.J. (10 January 1607 – 18 October 1646) was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois The Iroquois ( or ), officially the Haudenosaunee ( meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroqu ...

as an envoy to the Mohawk lands to protect the precarious peace of the time. However, Mohawk attitudes towards this peace had soured during the men's journey, and a Mohawk party attacked them en route. They were taken to the Mohawk village of Ossernenon (9 miles/14 km west of the current site of Auriesville, New York).Dean R. SNOW, (1995) ''Mohawk Valley Archaeology: The Sites,'' University at Albany Institute for Archaeological Studies (First Edition); ''Occasional Papers Number 23,'' Matson Museum of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University (Second Edition). The moderate Turtle and Wolf clans ruled they should be set free but, angered by this, members of the Bear clan killed Jogues on October 18. The next day, they killed Lalande when he attempted to recover the body of Father Jogues from the path of the village. Jean de Lalande was beatified by Pope Pius XI on June 21, 1925, and canonized on June 29, 1930. His feast day is October 19 in the US and September 26th in Canada.

Legacy

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's Rose Hill Campus in the Bronx, New York, a freshman

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—Martyrs' Court—has three sections, which are named for the three U.S. martyr-saints: John LaLande, René Goupil, and

. Jean de Lalande is the patron saint of th
Saint John LaLande Catholic Parish
in Blue Springs, Missouri. A seven-foot-tall limestone statue of St. John LaLande, carved by Fritz Carpenter of the Stefan Mittler Monument Company in Madison, Wisconsin, stands outside the church. A second wooden statue depicting Jean LaLande dressed in buckskin was commissioned from Studio Demetz in Ortisei, Italy, and dedicated on May 18, 2013, in honor of the parish's seventy-fifth anniversary. Jean de Lalande also has special meaning to the Catholic youth camp Camp Ondessonk, which honors the North American martyrs and their Native American friends.

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St. John Lalande Library
St. Jean de Lalande Archives *Camp Ondessonk
"Statue of St. John LaLande, Blue Springs, Missouri
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