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October 19: ST. ISAAC JOGUES: The Missionary Who Went Back
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St. Isaac Jogues escaped slavery among the Mohawk with broken, tortured hands — and then chose to go back. A Jesuit missionary among the Huron people, Isaac was captured, enslaved, and tortured for over a year, secretly baptizing whoever he could reach even in captivity. After escaping to France, he received special papal permission to say Mass with his ruined hands, then returned to New France as a missionary of peace, ultimately giving his life for the very people who had once held him captive. "It would be unjust that a martyr of Christ not drink th...
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast where we know that every day is a feast day. It's October 19th, so join us for St. Isaac Jokes, the missionary who went back. Another joke sat in the darkness of a ship's cargo hold, hiding under sacking and rope, barely breathing, waiting for the tide to turn.
Just days before Dutch merchants had smuggled him out of a Mohawk village, where he had spent more than a year as a slave. His hands were wrapped in cloth and his fingers were bent and painfully broken. He was thin, but he was free.
The ship would set sail for Europe with the morning tide, and in weeks he would be home in France for the first time in seven years. And yet there, even before the ship set sail,
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