Does that mean they have kind of a religious role?" he asked

"You know, you have to suffer if you want to win.

"It really strikes something, and it's really fun too. Serious, but with some humour."

there will be a lot of diversity."

determined in a "playoff round"

"Are the Montreal Canadiens a religion?"

to study whether the Canadiens are, in fact, a faith.

"If that was the start of the Quiet Revolution,it wasn't very quiet."

Quiet Revolution, in which French Quebecoisbegan asserting greater control over their lives.

The Detroit Red Wings would take a 4-1 lead over theRocketless Canadiens, driving a combustible crowd closer to theedge.

diva's entrance

never won a scoring title and was on the brink of his first.

Campbell's rulingwas considered an act not of justice but of vindictiveness

French-speaking Quebecois listening to the game on the radio

other because one of its central figures, Maurice Richard, waslike no other hockey player.

sports can mean so much more than a game.

Not everyone upset with Campbell’s ruling or who participated in the events of that night were French-Canadian.

That cost Richard and his teammates not only the Cup, but another $1,000 each.

The events had troubled him, especially to think they may have been done in his name.

Police Chief Tom Leggett banned parades and gatherings near the Forum. He appointed plainclothes officers to on the lookout for “persons carrying offensive weapons.”

“If they hadn’t pampered Maurice Richard, built him up as a hero until he felt he was bigger than hockey itself, this wouldn’t have happened.”

French papers blamed Campbell for provoking the violence. Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau also placed responsibility on Campbell

They shattered display windows and carried away what they could. They crashed windows of banks and the post office. They terrified patrons of a restaurant and bar with the objects they flung through windows.

They arrested the offenders they could catch. By midnight, his men managed to herd the crowd away from the Forum.

Campbell declared a forfeit in the Red Wings’ favor, the league’s first-ever such ruling.

No longer distracted by their team’s losing effort on the ice, disgruntled patrons turned their attention to Campbell, and the deluge in his direction intensified.

even smiled.

Yet if he did not go, he feared people would see him as a coward, his own pride trumping common sense.

There are no women, only men,

Not surprising, then, that a French paper published a cartoon of Campbell’s bloody head on a platter with the caption, “This is how we would like to see him.”

“If Richard’s name was Richardson you would have given a different verdict.”

“No sports decision ever hit the Montreal public with such impact.

Richard and pointed out that Laycoe “was no angel,” going so far to suggest that since Laycoe knew “Richard erupts like Vesuvius” his provocation “should be considered an accessory before the fact.”

When asked to comment, he said, “I don’t remember what happened.”

Richard remained silent during the meeting conducted in English, his second language.

He would then decide Richard’s fate.

Freedom of speech is no longer mine to enjoy,” he wrote bitterly. “As a hockey player, I am obliged to obey my employer’s orders.” The implication, as a French-Canadian forced to buckle to his Anglo overseers, was clear.

just because he is a French-Canadian.”

the president had fined Richard $250

the one Anglo-Canadian, the other French-Canadian,

Campbell did not witness the Boston melee

Richard felt the need to protect himself because, he claimed, the officials would not.

The next day, when Richard spotted McLean in the hotel lobby, he grabbed the referee by the throat,

. During 18 seasons total, he was assessed 1,285 minutes in penalties.

Opponents frequently antagonized Richard because they could count on him retaliating and they would rather see him in the penalty box than on the ice.

a rebellion against a kind of colonial imperialism, a reordering of the social order that set things right … at least for a night.

People tripped over the hyperbole to explain what Maurice Richard meant to French-Canadians:

“many decibels above in volume” the applause for any other goal,

ot only did he score often, he scored meaningful goals, when his team needed them the most, the game-winners in a record eight playoff games and more than 60 regular-season games.

ichard averaged a goal a game, playing in all 50 games, and the legend took root.

fragile.

his skills were in such high demand he played as often as he could, sometimes four games in a weekend, using aliases to play for multiple teams, often against grown men.

Crosby

And that was just the beginning.

nds Laycoe to the penalty box with a five-minute major for drawing blood. When Laycoe throws a bloody towel at him, he adds 10 minutes.

ichard thinks Thompson, who once played for the Bruins himself, holds him so Laycoe can hit him.

Incensed, Richard swings his stick with two-fisted fury at Laycoe.

His stick blade clips the Rocket above the left ear and opens a gash. The blood stains his scalp.

But the hit lit the fuse of Richard’s infamous temper.

hockey was more important than politics

only quelled when Richard went on radio and TV, asking for calm. He would reluctantly take his punishment.

he showed up to the game (10 minutes late) with his secretary (future wife) and took his regular place.

Rocket was suspended for the final three games of the season plus the entire Stanley Cup playoffs.

"hearing" with the players involved a few days later was a sham because the decision had been made

Maurice Richard was in trouble.

the Rocket

a great way to sell tickets.

how violent the National Hockey League was in those days.

In short, they saved their lives

we [108] baptized more than thirteen hundred persons;

But we must await that time with patience and courage

This sweetness of temper was the virtue in him which seemed to float above all the others; it was proof against everything

He had been commanded to write these extraordinary things which occurred within his soul,—at least, those which he could most easily remember; for they were too frequent, and care for the salvation of his neighbor hardly gave him any leisure to write from time to time.

After all, his course has been quickly finished; but in this little time he has fulfilled the expectations which earth and Heaven could have for his labors

to sacrifice myself for them

rather than fear it

which those executioners placed on coals to roast, and ate in their sight.

" Others added, mocking, " we treat thee as a friend, since we shall be the cause of thy greatest happiness up in Heaven; thank us for so many good offices,—for, the more thou sufferest, the more thy God will reward thee. "

suffered like a rock, insensible to the fires and the flames, without uttering any cry, and keeping a profound silence,

They cut off the hands of one, and [page 141] pierce the other with sharp awls and iron points; they apply under their armpits and upon their loins hatchets heated red in the fire, and put a necklace of these about their necks in such a way that all the motions of their bodies gave them a new torture.

had had their heads split by a blow of the hatchet; others remained, half burned, at a post

It had, however, [page 133] cost them very dear, as their Chief had been seriously wounded, and they had lost nearly a hundred men on the spot, of their best and most courageous.

These Iroquois were forced into that palisade, and about thirty of them were taken captives.

We were in a good state of defense, and saw not one of our Frenchmen who was not resolved to sell his life very dear, and to die in a cause which—being for the interests of the Faith, and the maintenance of Christianity in these countries—was more the cause of God than ours; moreover, our greatest confidence as in him.

victuals

we understood sufficiently what was happening,—this village of Saint Louys not being farther distant from us than one league. Two Christians, who escaped from the fire, arrived almost at the same time, and gave us assurance of it.

night

May God be forever blessed for this

" I am a Christian," she said to her parents; " the Devils have no longer [29] any power over me. I do not consent to the sin that you have just committed, in consulting the Demons; I do not wish their remedies. God alone will cure me; let [page 115] this Magician go away." The father and mothers and all those present, were much astonished at this rebuke,—so innocent, but yet so efficacious that they made that juggler withdraw, not wishing to grieve this sick child. But their astonishment increased when, on that very day, this child asked to be carried to the Church, asserting that she would get well,—as, in fact, it happened.

both admiring the zeal of that good old man, and wondering at himself for having met with resistance, at once so earnest in its purpose and so gentle, through a working which indeed had nothing of Nature about it.

not one of these Christians could be found who would listen to it.

What we cannot doubt is, that he must have had much to suffer there: but what consoles us is, our certain knowledge that everywhere sufferings [20] have been the price due for the conversion of the Nations conquered for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

the progress of the Faith has surpassed our hopes,

having given the four newly-arrived Fathers to serve as assistants in the most arduous Missions,—where, while rendering some assistance, they could at the same time learn the language of the country.

These were his last discourses,—being nearer to death than he thought; but [15] God was conducting him thither with as much blessedness as if he had had some assurance of it. [page 95]

the name of JESUS, he blessedly yielded up his soul to God,—truly as a good Pastor, who exposes both his soul and his life for the salvation of his Rock

" My Brothers, [11] to day we shall be in Heaven."

approaches by night

that which our nature would especially dread, for it is thus alone that he deserves to be served.

we gave them, at the start, a cask of Eels, and a barrel of Indian corn; also 6 Blankets, 2 pairs of snowshoes, etc. For their Cabin

the arrival of three vessels,

sailed in a bark

They brought news that 7 Yroquois had been killed by those of the petite nation

two Days later, three Captive yroquois iced

suspected of theft and threatened with Justice, proved to be lost

St. Dominique

Ash Wednesday,

purification

Others came to drink his blood, still warm, which they drank with both hands,—saying that Father de Brebceuf had been very courageous to endure so much pain as they had given him, and that, by drinking his blood, they would become courageous like him.

endured like a rock, insensible to fire and flames, which astonished all the bloodthirsty wretches who tormented him

bitter sarcasm, " Go to Heaven, for thou art well baptized."

as at the old location, the center of mission activities

The blows dealt by the Iroquois have filled the Huron land with consternation, and its people are dispersing in every direction. To add to their wretchedness, famine is raging everywhere—worse than for fifty years past.

is taken " almost without a blow,

They overwhelm him with arrow and gun shots, and throw his naked corpse into the flames which are consuming the church,—truly a noble funeral pyre. While they delay thus, many of the converts are enabled to escape;

baptizing all whom he can reach, that at least their souls may be saved

livres

On the 20th, the sad tidings come from Huronia that those tribes are destroyed, and that some of the Fathers have become martyrs. A few weeks later, aid is sent to the Huron mission

The bonfire was again made, this year, on St. Joseph's eve; " but the material was separated from the spiritual.

occurred the first execution by the hand of the hangman, in the case of a Creature of 15 or 16 years, a thief

Every year they marry their nets or Seines to two little girls, who must be only from six to seven years of age, for fear they may have lost their virginity, which is a very rare quality among them. The ceremony of these espousals takes place at a fine feast, where the Seine is placed between the two virgins

fourth kind, and is made for deliverance from a sickness thus named

There are among these People men who presume to command the rain and winds; others, to [page 193] predict future events; others, to find things that are [134] lost; and, lastly, others to restore health to the sick, and that with remedies that have no relation to the sicknesses.

I lost courage;

In the first place, the Captain, having already consulted in private with the other Captains and Old Men of his Village, and having concluded that the affair warrants a public assembly, sends invitations to the Council, to as many persons of each Village as he desires.

womb, and that she may give them life again

As we drew near, we saw nothing less than a picture of Hell

Is not that a noble example to inspire Christians, who ought to have thoughts much more elevated to acts of charity and works of mercy towards their neighbor? After that, who will be afraid of the stench of a Hospital; and who will not take a peculiar pleasure in seeing himself at the feet of a sick man all covered with wounds, in the person of whom he beholds the Son of [199] God?

strip them of their flesh, taking off skin and flesh which they throw into the fire along with the robes and mats in which the bodies were wrapped

swarming with worms

feast

SI CREDERE FAS EST.

the soul escaped

"Pierce-head," who draws the brains out of the heads of the dead, and keeps them.

he souls of thieves, they are quite welcome,

They sow corn in its season, and use the fields the living have abandoned; if any Village takes fire, which often happens in this country, they take care to gather from the middle of this fire the roasted corn, and lay it by as a part of their provisions.

hen they bear it to the [98] grave, it walks in front, and remains in the cemetery until the feast of the Dead; by night, it walks through the villages and enters the Cabins, where it takes its part in the feasts, and eats what is left at evening in the kettle; whence it happens that many, on this account, do not willingly eat from it on the morrow; there are even some of them who will not go to the feasts made for the souls, believing that they would certainly die if they should even taste of the provisions prepared for them; others, however, are not so scrupulous, and eat their fill.

frog,

They listen very willingly, and are well satisfied therewith

What would you say to that? All that we do is to bear witness to them that we feel compassion for their so gross ignorance;

kicked him into the water

judge if this does not relate in some way to the murder of Abel

If you ask them how, you puzzle them very much.

beasts

As for the verbs, what is most remarkable in their language is: 1. That they have some to signify animate things, and others to signify things without life.

Now in connection with this name Father I must not forget the difficulty there is in teaching to say Our Father who art in Heaven, to those who have none on earth; to speak to them of the dead whom they have loved, is to insult them. A woman, whose mother had died a short time before, almost lost her desire to be baptized because the command, Thou shalt honor thy Father and thy Mother, had been inadvertently quoted to her.

As they have hardly any virtue or Religion, or any learning or government, they have consequently no simple words suitable to express what is connected with these.

Barbarism, ignorance, poverty, and misery, which render the life [page 111] of these Savages more deplorable than death, are a continual reminder to us to mourn Adam's fall,

I mean Chastity

than to drag out a life full of misery, amid the frequent and ordinary dangers of an unforeseen death, which those whom you hope to save will procure for you

you have no other employment [page 103] than the study of the language, and conversation with the Savages. Ah! how much pleasure there is for a heart devoted to God

the discomfort of the Canoe is very easy to bear, to him who considers the crucified one

We get them in their houses; and this petty martyrdom, not to speak of Mosquitoes, Sandflies, and other like vermin, lasts usually not less than three or four months of the Summer.

meeting his relatives

Besides, while God has admirable consolations for those who fear him, he has much greater ones for those who love him.

Blessed Virgin

a Huron and a thief being almost the same

Louys drew the conclusion from it for his relatives that, if they served God faithfully, their Cabin would not be burned even if all the village were afire.

they even found them easy

There is not one of us who does not already talk a jargon, and make himself understood

Iroquois

Tehorenhaegnon is only a deceiver

they did so well that on the same day God gave them rain, and in the end a plentiful harvest, as well as a profound admiration for the divine Power.

Savages

I told them that neither we nor any man could bring rain or fine weather; that he who made Heaven and earth alone was master of them, and distributed them according to his good pleasure;

began to shoot at it as at a target with their bows and arrows, but our Lord did not permit them to hit it even once. Others were much more wicked, since they were more fully acquainted with the knowledge of the one God, Creator and Governor of all things, for they accused his Goodness and Providence with horrid blasphemies.

so that he had to confess that he could not succeed, and he declared that the crops would not ripen; but unfortunately, or rather fortunately for us, he said that he was hindered from making it rain by a Cross which is before our door, and that the house of the French was a house of demons, or of ill-disposed people who had come into their Country in order to make them die.

These deceivers played all the tricks that dreams and their own empty heads could suggest to them, in order to bring rain, but in vain, the. Heavens were as brass to their foolishness.

If there were Nuns at Kébec, I believe we might be able to send also girls for a Seminary

asked them to decide, after careful [page 27] deliberation

Kébec

blame their wicked customs;

Such is the custom of our country." We have fought this excuse and have taken it from their mouths, but not yet from their hearts; our Lord will do that when it shall please him.

which is strengthened by the perfect health God gives us,

It is said that this woman, who was named Marie, in the midst of her greatest weakness foretold that she would not die for eight days; and so it happened.

Kebec

Brébeuf devotes a chapter to the peculiarities of this tongue.

giving them a canoe and other presents.

the missionaries promise to assist them in such emergencies,

The result is a plentiful harvest, which increases the good will of the savages toward the black gowns.

to emphasize this advice, and in accordance with the custom of the country, he " presents to the assembly a collar of twelve hundred beads of Porcelain, telling them that it was given to smooth the difficulties of the road to Paradise."

" rescued from the service of the devil "