{"id":347,"date":"2010-10-19T12:55:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2010-10-19T12:55:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T16:55:03","slug":"remembering-the-north-american-martyrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/remembering-the-north-american-martyrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the North American Martyrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (October 19th) we celebrate the memorial of St. Isaac Jogues, St. John De Brebeuf, and their companions.\u00a0 They are the first North American Martyrs to be officially recognized by the Church.\u00a0 They are part of our heritage as American Catholics.\u00a0 They were part of a group of French Jesuits who came to Quebec in the early 1600&#8217;s as missionaries to the Native American Indians.\u00a0 They successfully converted over 7,000 Huron Indians.\u00a0 Their missionary work let them to enter into New York State where they were martyred by the Iroquois and Mohawk Indians.\u00a0 They worked hard in the missionary work that God called them to, accepting martyrdom for the glory of God.\u00a0 You can read more about them at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americancatholic.org\/Features\/Saints\/saint.aspx?id=1173\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.americancatholic.org\/Features\/Saints\/saint.aspx?id=1173<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They helped plant the early seeds of the Christian Faith in North America and for this we venerate them as the North American Martyrs.<\/p>\n<p>Peace,<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Jeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (October 19th) we celebrate the memorial of St. Isaac Jogues, St. John De Brebeuf, and their companions.\u00a0 They are the first North American Martyrs to be officially recognized by the Church.\u00a0 They are part of our heritage as American Catholics.\u00a0 They were part of a group of French Jesuits who came to Quebec in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/remembering-the-north-american-martyrs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Remembering the North American Martyrs&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[55],"tags":[56],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMTPk-5B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}