Jean de Lalande

Saint John de Lalande
North American Martyrs
Martyr
Born	Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France
Died	October 18, 1646 Auriesville, New York, United States
Honored in	Roman Catholic Church
Beatified	June 21, 1925, Rome, Italy by Pope Pius XI
Canonized	29 June 1930, Rome, Italy by Pope Pius
Major shrine	National Shrine of the North American Martyrs, Auriesville, New York, USA (where he was martyred)
Feast	19 October (general calendar), 26 September (Canada)

Saint Jean de Lalande (died October 18, 1646) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and one of the eight North American Martyrs.

Lalande was a member of a party led by Jesuit Isaac Jogues as an envoy to the Mohawk lands to protect the precarious peace of the time. However, Mohawk attitudes towards this peace had soured during the men's journey and they were attacked by a Mohawk party en route. They were taken to the village of Ossernenon (Auriesville, N.Y.), where they were decreed to be set free by the moderate Turtle and Wolf clans. Angered by this, the more hawkish Bear clan killed Lalande and Jogues on October 18, 1646.

At Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus in the Bronx, New York, a freshman dormitory—Martyrs' Court—has three sections, which are named for the three U.S. martyr-saints: John LaLande, René Goupil, and Isaac Jogues.

Saint Jean de Lalande is the patron saint of the Saint John LaLande Catholic Parish in Blue Springs, Missouri.

See also

• Catholic Church in the USA#American Catholic Servants of God, Venerables, Beatified, and Saints
• Christian martyrs

External links

• Jean de La Lande, Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. University of Toronto/Université Laval.
• Phelan, Horatio, Jean de la Lande / ? - 1646. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
• St. John Lalande Library St. Jean de Lalande Archives