An Iroquois war party of about one…
March 1649 CE
An Iroquois war party of about one thousand captures the mission of St. Ignace on March 16, 1649, and a few hours later capture St. Louis, where they seize the Jesuit missionaries Jean Brébeuf and Gabriel Lallemant and bring them back to St. Ignace.
Here they are fastened to stakes and tortured to death by scalping, mock baptism using boiling water, fire, necklaces of red hot hatchets and mutilation.
According to Catholic tradition, Brébeuf does not make a single outcry while he is being tortured and he astounds the Iroquois, who later cut out his heart and eat it in hopes of gaining his courage.
The Iroquois raiders kill about three hundred people; the Jesuits burn the mission after abandoning it to prevent its capture.