When you have a lot of people passionate about hockey, and not about religion, it's interesting to see people's reactions to the question,"
passion about sports significantly differs from religion. you can be very passionate about religion and worshipping God, but it isn't comparable to how people feel about sports.
In Prof. Olivier Bauer's class at the Université de Montréal, worshippers can argue that their team is their religion.
hard to believe there is really a class that would debate this topic. sports are not a religion, you do not worship a player. it is mocking religion.
The arena is their temple, the players are their saviours, and those who worship them pray that the sacrifices made on the ice — of blood, sweat and tears — will lead them to glory.
this seems pretty sacreligious to me. referring to a sporting arena as a "temple" and the players as "saviors" strikes a cord in me. its not okay
Graduate course set to debate whether one of Quebec's biggest passions is a religion
This is a wild statement. It is odd to think that this was even a real discussion that had to happen.
His rare defeats were their defeats.And no defeat was as personal, as galling, as the suspensionthat NHL president Clarence Campbell had handed Richard the daybefore all hell broke loose.
More should have been done to stop the riot from happening at all. The fact that grown men act like this is so funny to me because if this were to happen in high school games, people would be expelled for kicked off the team, but here not much was actually done.
"If that was the start of the Quiet Revolution,it wasn't very quiet."COLOR ILLUSTRATION
That's an awesome quote!
Richard had led the Canadiens tothree Stanley Cups and had scored 50 goals in 50 games, but hehad never won a scoring title and was on the brink of his first.
I can't imagine how angry this made him. He put everything into the sport that he loved, and was obviously good at, and wasn't recognized for his huge accomplishments
Richard had twice viciouslyslashed his nemesis, Hal Laycoe of the Boston Bruins, and thenassaulted a linesman.
so they both had a history of serious violence. before this escalated like it did, it should have been heavil penalized
Smoke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets, sparking afour-hour rampage that yielded the requisite fires, shatteredwindows, looted stores, overturned cars and 137 arrests.
this seems like a lot for a hockey fight. it must have been pretty serious to involved tear gas and arrests.
At times, he appeared superhuman. Like that night in December 1944 when he showed up at the Forum exhausted from moving furniture all day into his family’s new apartment — then scored five goals and added three assists, setting the NHL record for most points in a single game.
What an incredible athlete. This is definitely not what you see with most athletes.
And that was just the beginning.
That was a lot for "just the beginning".
Boston police come to the locker room. They want to arrest Richard for assault, to throw him in jail for the night.
Why only arrest him though? It wasn't just his fault. There were more people involved in the fight and this article states that the other guy "started it"
For five minutes, the tempest rages. The crowd, on its feet, cannot believe the madness before them. They’ve seen fights over the Garden’s past three decades in the days when players swung their sticks and fists more liberally, but nothing like this, nothing as determined and wild.
I love the imagery used to depict the story, I really feel like I am watching it unfold.
Their teammates swarm about, clutching and shoving one another.
This is one of my favorite things about sports fights. When watching baseball, I think it is so fun to watch teams swarm the field and swing on eachother, I dont know why
He hits him with such force across the shoulders that his stick splinters.
i couldn't imagine the force that it actually took to splinter a hockey stick. I imagine they are pretty sturdy so that must have been a hard hit
Laycoe lunges at Richard. His stick blade clips the Rocket above the left ear and opens a gash. The blood stains his scalp.
this is incredibly intense for a hockey game. this situation can easily turn deadly.
Laycoe, the Bruins forward had nailed Richard in the first period. He served two minutes for charging. But the hit lit the fuse of Richard’s infamous temper.
interesting how sports can cause an intense rivalry. I always thought it was so interesting that when people are on different teams they'll form a rivalry solely from being on a different team. that rivalry can lead to more like in this case.
Unbeaten, unbowed, unrepentant — still forever proud.
now this is how you finish a paper strong.
And the Rocket, who always refused to align himself with a political party, would lead his teammates to five straight Stanley Cup victories until retiring in the spring of 1960 with 544 regular-season goals to his credit.
25 years to add a rule is crazy to me.
These final words, however, are of the sport.
that shows the genuine power behind words!
It went on most of the night with fears of a repeat a few hours later as it grew dark again — only quelled when Richard went on radio and TV, asking for calm. He would reluctantly take his punishment.
I can't imagine how long this would have gone on. Im glad that he spoke up and tried to calm things down.
arrests
That is interesting and surprising!
Either way, Maurice Richard was in trouble.
It is pretty interesting that there are "highlight clips" of a fight
At the Boston Garden on March 13, 1955, bespectacled Bruins defender Hal Laycoe had another of his endless run-ins with Richard, leaving the Habs' star cut on the head after a high stick. A brawl ensued, and the Rocket broke his CCM stick over Laycoe's back.
Hockey is crazy violent all of the time. I couldn't imagine seeing this degree of violence in any other sport.
was crucial to know how violent the National Hockey League was in those days.
I'm not sure if this is just an issue within American hockey, but I have always known it to be pretty violent. not too long ago, a hockey player was killed because somebody else got too wound up and accidentally sliced the mans neck.
I saw and touched his two lips, which they had cut off because he constantly spoke of God while they made him suffer.
God bless this man. Speaking of God until he physically couldn't anymore. His faith was so strong that while he was going through this torture, he knew that God would protect him in the afterlife.
Father de Brebceuf had his legs, thighs, and arms stripped of flesh to the very bone; I flaw and touched a large number of great blisters, which he had on several places on his body, from the boiling water which these barbarians had poured over him in mockery of Holy Baptism.
Absolutely sickening. I am having trouble finding the right words to describe my feelings toward the subject. Absolutely awful. Making a mockery of the Holy Baptism is heinous.
I do not doubt that all which I have just related is true, and I would seal it with my blood; for I have seen the same treatment given to Iroquois prisoners whom the Huron savages had taken in war, with the exception of the boiling water, which I have not seen poured on any one.
Although farfetched sounding, the author makes note of how he has seen similar treatment of people and does not doubt the accounts that he have retold.
Father de Brebceuf died the same day as his capture, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Oddly, I am surprised how much detail they have for this time period.
They proceeded to vent their rage on those two Fathers; for they took them both and stripped them entirely naked, and fastened each to a post. They tied both of their hands together. They tore the nails from their fingers. They beat them with a shower of blows from cudgels, on the shoulders, the loins, the belly, the legs, and the face,—there being no part of their body which did not endure this torment.
Incredible imagery and word choice when telling this story. absolutely terrifying to think about. It is hard to read, think about, or even try to wrap my mind around why people would do anything like this.
We all thought it was the Iroquois who were coming to attack us; but, having considered them more closely, we perceived that they were Hurons who were fleeing from the fight, and who had escaped from the combat. these poor savages caused great pity in us. They were all covered with wounds. One had his head fractured; another his arm broken; another had an [page 25] arrow in his eye; another had his hand cut off by a blow from a hatchet
Absolutely terrifying, I couldn't imagine the state of terror they were living in every day.
Here all suffer fearful privations; for, having fled from their cultivated fields to a wilderness, they must resort for food to wild roots and fruits. The Fathers are, however, consoled by the eagerness of these people to embrace the Faith; during the past thirteen months, they have baptized [page 16] over 2,700 persons, besides those who received that rite at the hands of the martyrs, at the storming of their villages. The Paris editor adds the description of a terrible shipwreck which occurred last summer off the Great Banks; and the miraculous rescue, by an English vessel, of the lost ship's crew, when, reduced to the last extremity, they were about to eat the flesh of one of their own number.
People were so desperate in this time of famine and suffering that they had to turn to nature, but were on the brink of eating their own peers.
About 1,800 persons have been baptized during the year, not including those baptized by Daniel at the destruction of St. Joseph
That is an incredible number of baptisms. Like mentioned in the other text, baptisms were the goal of the French. The baptisms in this text make a lot of sense. The Jesuits helped the Hurons in their time of need of famine, gaining their trust, allowing more baptisms and testimonials.
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.
Language used here is truly incredible at painting a very colorful picture when retelling this story.
Father Daniel, in charge of that mission, is killed while encouraging his flock to resist the enemy, whose sudden and unexpected attack finds the Christians at their little church, attending the celebration of mass.
Incredible selflessness from this man.
A number of Hurons come down to three Rivers and Quebec to spend the winter; they are aided by the Jesuits with food, blankets, etc.
These basic necessities were provided to the Hurons by the Jesuits, I can't imagine how thankful they were for that aid. They needed to survive the winters and famine and the Jesuits had both of those covered.
There is also great scarcity at Quebec; but the Jesuits are able to aid the people there, with "more than 40 casks of grain," for seed and for food.
Famine made things increasingly difficult for the people and their likelihood of survival.
Little else of importance occurs during the cold season. " The winter's Work was to pile sand for building and wood for heating."
Times were difficult, people had to do what they needed to do in order to survive.
He relates these in detail, and then describes the condition of the martyrs' remains, which he has helped to bring from St. Ignace to Ste. Marie, and afterward carefully examines, finding that the appearance of the bodies [page 9] fully confirms the statements of the Hurons. The bones of these victims are carried to Quebec, " where they are held in great veneration. "
This paints a very colorful image. "The bones" is such a blunt way of saying someones remains if they had any respect for the people who passed.
We do not wish to be separated from our children, we desire to go to Heaven with them.
By baptizing the children, the French are saying that they are then going to heaven and since their parents didn't want to be separated from them, then they would follow in their footsteps and also be baptized and accept the Lord into their life.
Another benefit that results from this practice—which is in conformity with our Institute—is, that even the adults become instructed by this means; [15] for the desire of the fathers and mothers that their children should be praised and rewarded leads them to be instructed themselves, in order to teach their children; particularly many older girls take pleasure in imitating the younger ones.
This proves that children's minds are impressionable and when their parents see them doing something, they will feel the need to join them. Going through the children first seemed to make the most sense.
We gather together the men as often as we can; for their councils, their feasts, their games, and their dances do not permit us to have them here at any 'hour, nor every day.
The french men still saw the native people as less than themselves. They came onto their land, forced religious conversions, and saw their culture as "silly". They didn't respect their way of life, their culture, or their lives in general.
Father Antoine Daniel and the other Fathers go every day through the Cabins, teaching the children, whether baptized or not, Christian doctrine,—namely, the sign of the Cross, [11] the Pater, the Ave, the Credo, the Commandments of God, the Prayer to the Guardian Angel, and other brief prayers, all in their own tongue, because these Peoples have a natural inaptitude for learning any other.
interesting they would teach the gospel whether they were baptized or not
There is in our village a little Christian girl named Louyse, who at six months began to walk alone; the [page 13] parents declare they have seen nothing like it, and ,attribute it to the efficacy of Holy Baptism. Another person told us one day, with great delight, that his little [7] boy, who had always been sick and much emaciated before Baptism, had been very well since then. This will suffice to show how Our Lord is inspiring them
These testimonials were told to encourage the native people to convert to their religion and show them that God can do great things.
the accent of that Nation is a little different from that of the Bears,
Even still, the natives are being referred to in derogatory terms. First it was savages, now they are being compared to animals. How did this view of natives change once they were converted and baptised? Did they treat all natives as if they were bad until they proved otherwise?
URING the present year, eighty-six have been baptized, and, adding to these the fourteen of last year, there are a hundred souls in all who, we believe, have been rescued from the service of the devil in this country since our return.
This reminded me of the show "1923" where catholic nuns and priests forced young native american women to adopt their religion and act like "ladies". In the show, the young girls are reluctant to do what the catholics want them to do but are afraid to do otherwise or they would be beaten. I wonder if this situation was similar to this show. I wonder if the Hurons were ruluctant but scared, fighting the conversion, or willingly embracing it with open arms.
It is by his aid that we have already planted the Cross in the midst of this Barbarism, and are beginning and will continue, if it please him, to make known the name and marvelous works of him who by the Cross has redeemed the world.
I have no words for this other than wow. As a Christian, I found this to be mind blowing and awful. These people were forcing their religion and agenda on the natives, thinking they were doing a good deed.
Frenchmen will greatly aid not only to bring together and encourage to work the idle and wandering Savages, but to incite them to do for God what they shall find practicable.
The language used in this sentence makes it seem like the French did not respect or even care about the natives. The word "savages" keeps being used when referring to the natives and it portrays a negative connotation that leads me to believe that there was no respect from the French to the natives.
The translation of Brébeuf's portion
Translations have historically altered the tone and language that had been used in the original version. Language is important in conveying a tone and, as we have discussed in class, language can alter the perception of the piece when telling and retelling stories.
the Hurons are duly grateful.
It is hard to say whether or not the Hurons were being grateful for the missionaries or if that is just what they assumed based on the promises they gave.
The result is a plentiful harvest, which increases the good will of the savages toward the black gowns.
Interesting wording used throughout this entire paragraph. The use of the word "sorcerers" followed immediately by "medicine men" is odd. That type of language isn't typically associated with religion as it is similar to witchcraft and the devil. But then when these people couldn't bring rain, the indigenous people were told by the priests that praying to these certain saints would bring rain. And that it did. I can't imagine how much the brining of rain influenced the indigenous people of Huron to turn to religion.
Their great hope is in the conversion of the children, who, they report, show surprising aptitude and willingness to learn the doctrines of the Christian faith; and, through them, many parents have been reached.
Smart thinking on their end, honestly. The children who showed willingness to learn could influence their parents, or even continue to spread their faith to their own children. It would be pretty simple to influence a child rather than try to get an adult to change their ways.
baptized eighty-six savages,
What is crazy to be is how the people native to the land were the "savages" and converted the natives to share the same religious beliefs that they did. The language used makes it seemed forced rather than a conversation about conversion.