Background
Rene Goupil was born in about 1608, and was a native of the province of Anjou in France.
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Rene Goupil was born in about 1608, and was a native of the province of Anjou in France.
In his youth, Goupil entered the Jesuit novitiate at Paris with a view to studying for the priesthood, but, after a few months, ill health obliged him to leave the novitiate. He seems to have studied medicine and, when his health was restored, he left France for Canada, where he arrived in 1640.
For two years, Goupil gave his services to the Fathers as a donné and, at the request of Father Isaac Jogues who had come from the Huron missions to get supplies, Goupil was assigned to accompany him on the return journey.
The party of about forty, four Frenchmen and the rest Hurons, left Three Rivers on August 1, 1642. The next day, they were ambushed and captured by the Iroquois.
Most of the Hurons were killed. Jogues, Goupil, and William Couture, another donné, were condemned to slavery and for some time were in constant danger of death. The hands of the prisoners had been so badly mutilated that they had to be fed by others. Even the Indians were moved to pity.
On September 29, the Feast of St. Michael, Goupil was killed, in the village of Ossernenon, near what is now Auriesville, New York. The immediate cause of his death was the exasperation of an old man who saw the captive making the sign of the cross over his grandchild.
Two Indians followed Jogues and Goupil as they went to pray in the nearby woods and ordered them back to the village. Near the gate, one of them split Goupil’s skull with a tomahawk. He fell with the name of Jesus on his lips.
On the journey to Ossernenon Goupil had pronounced the vows of the Society of Jesus. Jogues found his body in the torrent and covered it with stones, hoping later to bury it. When he sought it, it had disappeared.
Only the next spring did he find the head and some gnawed bones. These he secreted but was unable to take them with him when he escaped in 1643.
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