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| St.Noel Chabanel |  |
A Jesuit missionary among the Huron Indians
Entered the Jesuit novitiate at Toulouse at the age of seventeen, and
was professor of rhetoric in
several colleges of the society in the province of Toulouse. He was
highly esteemed for virtue
and learning.
In 1643, he was sent to Canada and, after studying the Algonquin language
for a time, was
appointed to the mission of the Hurons, among whom he remained till
his death.
In these apostolic labours he was the companion of the intrepid missionary,
Father Charles
Garnier.
As he felt a strong repugnance to the life and habits of the Indians,
and feared it might result in
his own withdrawal from the work, he nobly bound himself by vow never
to leave mission, and
he kept his vow to the end.
Slain by a renegade Huron, 8 December, 1649.