John A O'Brien - Jesuit Martyrs of North America (pdf) torrent

John A. O'Brien - The First Martyrs of North America: The Story of the Eight Jesuit Martyrs (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1953). 310 pages.

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Readable narrative about the torture and murder of eight early Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century by Native Americans in what are now southern Ontario and upstate New York. The eight are venerated as martyrs in the Roman Catholic Church.