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The inhabitants are hardly barbarous, they have a ...marvelous faculty for remembering places, and for describing them to one another. They ...can recall things that a White could not rehearse without writing

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Francesco Giuseppe Bressani

Born: May 6, 1612
Died: September 9, 1672
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François-Joseph Bressani, (Francesco-Giuseppe),, was an Italian-born Jesuit priest who served as a missionary in New France between 1642 and 1650. At one point, he was captured by the Mohawk people and ritually tortured. Because of failing health, he returned to Italy, serving the church there.

FRANCESCO GIUSEPPE BRESSANI

(François-Joseph Bressani)