1. FATHER ISAAC JOGUES BRANDON MURRAY NING POST #4

2. THE CAPTURE Father Isaac Jogues set out an a dangerous journey to Quebec in June of 1642 At this time many French and Indian allies had been ambushed by the Iroquois On the second day of their return trip home, Iroquois ambushed his group At first his small group held courageously against their first 30 attackers, but then another band of 40 Iroquois ambushed them Some of the group was over taken and captured by the Iroquois, while others fled for their lives Father Jogues not able to abandon his fellow neophytes and catechumens, surrendered himself to an Iroquois guard

3. THE TORTURE Father Jogues first experience with torture was the merciless beating he received after the embracement of a fellow Frenchman Guillaume Couture The Iroquois men stabbed and beat him with their war clubs until he was half dead The men who had not participated in this initial torture started to tear out his fingernails with their teeth and bit the ends of his fingers till bone shown thru Jogues’s next round of torture came eight days later when he was forced to run between two lines of Iroquois armed with whatever objects they desired These two lines of Iroquois reduced Jogues to unconsciousness, not to let him know the amount of hatred taken out on him When he came to they started to beat him again, burned one of his fingers, and crushed another The Iroquois continued to squeeze and twist the fingers that remained, scraped his wounds and burned his arm and thighs After these first rounds of torture came many more in at least three other villages of Iroquois At each village him and his group suffered the same treatment that further weakened each one, almost to the point of the death

4. THE DEMISE Finally the brutality of the Iroquois subsided and Father Jogues was sent to a village with his companion Rene Goupil The Iroquois did them no more harm but had some compassion and even fed them like children There was talk to return the captives to Three Rivers, but the Iroquois were unable to agree on the matter The return of any captives was finally abandoned and Father Jogues once again had to fear for his life After the death of his companion Goupil, Father Jogues had dreams that warned him of his eventual death Father Jogues was finally released from his bondage by a merciless hatchet blow