Saint in the Wilderness: the Story of St. Isaac Jogues and the Jesuit Adventure in the New World
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Publisher: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964.
Price: $50.00
Saint in the Wilderness: the Story of St. Isaac Jogues and the Jesuit Adventure in the New World
An edition in Fine condition with a previous owner's name inked on the front flyleaf in a price-clipped dust-jacket with large tears around the spine in Very Good condition.
In the mid-sixteenth century, the search for a new world was in full swing. The Portuguese had sailed the ocean blue, and the Spanish were feverishly exploring the Pacific. But there was still much to be discovered in the Old World. So when the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II issued a call for Christians to cross the ocean to evangelize the Native Americans, the Jesuits—a religious order of priests—were the perfect choice.
The Jesuits set sail from Spain in 1542 with a group of Spanish soldiers and a group of Native Americans. The journey was treacherous and the group was beset by disease, but they eventually made it to the New World. There, they found themselves in the middle of a brutal civil war between the Spanish and the French.
But the Jesuits were not afraid. In 1565, they founded the first Jesuit mission in North America—on the banks of the Saint Lawrence River in present-day Quebec. It was there; 8vo; 216 pages.
