Jean de Lalande

Infobox Saint
name=Saint Jean de Lalande
birth_date=
death_date=October 18, 1646
feast_day=19 October (general calendar), 26 September (Canada)
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


imagesize=225px
birth_place=Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France
death_place=Auriesville, New York, United States
titles=Martyr
declared venerable_date=
beatified_date=June 21, 1925
beatified_place=Rome, Italy
beatified_by=Pope Pius XI
canonized_date=29 June 1930
canonized_place=Rome, Italy
canonized_by=Pope Pius XI
attributes=
patronage=
major_shrine=National Shrine of the North American Martyrs, Auriesville, New York, USA (where he was martyred)
suppressed_date=
issues=
prayer=
caption=North American Martyrs

Saint Jean de Lalande (died October 18, 1646) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and one of the eight North American Martyrs.

Lalande was a member of a party led by Jesuit Isaac Jogues 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 they were attacked by a Mohawk party en route. They were taken to the village of Ossernenon (Auriesville, N.Y.), where they were decreed to be set free by the moderate Turtle and Wolf clans. Angered by this, the more hawkish Bear clan killed Lalande and Jogues on October 18, 1646.

Fordham University Rose Hill Campus in Bronx, New York has a student dormitory named after Jean de Lalande.

See also

*Christian martyrs

External links

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=388 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]

* [http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Jean+de+Lalande the Free Dictionary]