Saint Anthony Daniel Biography
Saint Anthony Daniel Biography, Feast Day, Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Beatification Date, Canonization Date |
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Date of Birth | May 27, 1601 |
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Country of Birth | France of Europe |
Matrimony/Holy Orders | Saints who were Not Married |
Profession | Missionary |
Place of Work | Canada |
Date of Death | July 4, 1648 |
Place of Death | Teanaostae, near Hillsdale, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. |
Feast Day | July 4 |
Beatification | Beatified by N/A |
Canonization | Canonized by Pope Pius XI |
Patron Saint of | N/A |
Saint Anthony Daniel Biography
Saint Anthony Daniel joined the Jesuits in Rome, Italy on October 1, 1621. He was ordained in 1629 and was a missionary to Canada in 1632. Saint Anthony also founded the first boy’s college in North America at Quebec in 1635. He was shot with arrows outside the chapel in which he had just celebrated mass.
Early Life
Conceived at Dieppe, in Normandy, on May 27, 1601. Following two years of’ studying theory and one year of law, Daniel entered the Society of Jesus in Rouen on October 1, 1621. He was an instructor of junior classes at the Collège in Rouen from 1623 to 1627. In 1627 he was sent to the College of Clermont in Paris to consider religious philosophy. In 1630, Daniel was appointed to the ministry. He at that point instructed at the College at Eu.
In 1632, Daniel and Ambroise Davost set sail for New France. Daniel’s sibling Charles was an ocean chief in the utilize of the De Caen Company of France, speaking to Protestant-Huguenot interests. Commander Daniel had a French stronghold on Cape Breton Island in 1629. They touched base at St. Anne’s Bay, Cape Breton, where the two Jesuits stayed for a year tending to the French who had settled there.
Arrest
In the spring of 1633, Daniel and Davost joined Captain Morieult on his approach to Quebec, and touched base there on June 24. While on transit in Tadoussac Davost was ceased. He was headed to a french exchanging settlement at the conversion of the Tadoussac and St. Lawrence rivers.
In 1634 Daniel ventured out to Wendake with Jean de Brébeuf and Daoust. Daniel considered the Wendat (Huron) language and gained quick ground. He deciphered the Lord’s Prayer, the Creed and different petitions into the Huron local tongue and set them to music. For a long time, in what is currently Quebec, he had charge of a school for Indian young men. He came back to Huronia in 1638 to assuage Brébeuf at the new mission.
Death
He came back to Teanaostaye, the central town of the Huron, in July 1648. Presently, the Iroquois made an abrupt assault on the mission while the greater part of the Huron men were away in Quebec exchanging. The cleric encouraged the safeguards. Before the palisades had been scaled, he rushed to the church where the ladies, youngsters, and elderly people men were accumulated. He gave them general exculpation and, drenching his cloth in a bowl of water, he shook it over them, absolving the catechumens by aspersion.
Daniel, still in his vestments, took up a cross and strolled toward the oncoming Iroquois. The Iroquois stopped for a minute, at that point shot at him. They put Daniel’s body into the sanctuary, which they had set ablaze. A considerable lot of the Huron evaded during this incident.
Daniel was the main saint of the evangelists to the Hurons. Father Ragueneau, his unrivaled, composed of him in a letter to the Superior General of the Jesuits as “a genuinely surprising man, modest, submissive, joined with God, of never fizzling tolerance and unyielding mental fortitude in adversity.”
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