CHAPTER IX. 



1637. 

 CHARACTER OF THE CANADIAN JESUITS. 



Jean de Brebeuf. — Charles Garnier. — Joseph Marie Chaumo- 

 NOT. — Noel Chabanel. — Isaac Jogues. — Other Jesuits. — 

 Nature of their Faith. — Supernaturalism. — Visions. — 

 Miracles. 



Before pursuing farther these obscure, but note- 

 worthy, scenes in the drama of human history, it 

 will be well to indicate, so far as there are means 

 of doing so, the distinctive traits of some of the 

 chief actors. Mention has often been made of 

 Brebeuf, — that masculine apostle of the Faith, — 

 the Ajax of the mission. Nature had given him all 

 the passions of a vigorous manhood, and religion 

 had crushed them, curbed them, or tamed them to 

 do her work, — like a dammed-up torrent, sluiced 

 and guided to grind and saw and weave for the 

 good of man. Beside him, in strange contrast, 

 stands his co-laborer, Charles Garnier. Both were 

 of noble bhth and gentle nurture ; but here the 

 parallel ends. Garnier's face was beardless, though 

 he was above thirty years old. For this he was 

 laughed at by his friends in Paris, but admired by 



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