American coat with broad padded shoulders; though on this cold Sunday he had not ventured to discard his winter cap of black cloth with harelined ear-laps for the hard felt hat he would have preferred to wear. Beside him Egide Simard, and others who had come a long road by sleigh, fastened their long fur coats as they left the church, drawing them in at the waist with scarlet sashes. The young folk of the village, very smart in coats with otter collars, gave deferential greeting to old Nazaire Larouche; a tall man with gray hair and huge bony shoulders who had in no wise altered for the mass his everyday garb: short jacket of brown cloth lined with sheepskin, patched trousers, and thick woollen socks under moose-hide moccasins.

Peribonka.

Tell me what your sport is and I'll tell you who you are

You know, you have to suffer if you want to win. Jesus had to die and resurrect. That's the kind of thing we expect from our players. You must be ready to suffer in order to win or earn us some victory. You must risk everything and sweat and fight or be knocked out," he said.

"[Bauer] has really touched something deep in Quebec society, something that is so obvious nobody has taken the time to mention it," he said. "It really strikes something, and it's really fun too. Serious, but with some humour."

Bauer said he might demonstrate his neutrality on the subject by lecturing in a referee jersey.

When you have a lot of people passionate about hockey, and not about religion,

More Than a Game, Less Than a God: Canadian Hockey.

"Are the Montreal Canadiens a religion?"

sport and religion

he arena is their temple

Quiet Revolution,it wasn't very quiet."

in which French Quebecoisbegan asserting greater control over their lives.

cattering teeth like jujubes. Therewere shouts, invective, a rumbling in the Forum. The tear gascame 30 seconds later.

made a diva's entrance at the Forum

to mythical status

The Rocket's triumphswere the people's triumphs

hockey'stemple

his five-goal game in 1944

were most likely hockey fans upset by a ruling that hurt their team.

The Canadiens fell out of first place without Richard

His words had a palliative effect. The next night nobody threw galoshes, nobody broke any more windows, nobody stopped streetcars. Campbell stayed away, and the Canadiens won. But Richard’s punishment still played out as expected.

Authorities feared a sequel to Thursday night’s rampage at Saturday’s game against the Rangers. The police took “emergency measures”

Why should Richard, for whom the game is made to order, take tantrums like a spoiled child and incite a lot of crack-pots such as the tear-gas bomb thrower at the Forum and the fools who broke windows and took after streetcars last night in Montreal?”

“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.

I am ashamed of my city.

for by now it had become a mob

Kill Campbell!”

onto streets already clogged with protestors

The man slapped him

A hardboiled egg bounced off Campbell’s hat. An orange nailed him in the back

Richard watched helplessly in street clothes from behind the net at the south end of the rink. He had walked into the building almost invisible without his No. 9 sweater.

the longest continuous such celebration in North America.

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

A city bus driver was so distraught by the ruling he missed a flashing railway signal and almost killed his passengers. “No sports decision ever hit the Montreal public with such impact. It seemed to strike at the very heart and soul of the city,” Sidney Katz observed in Maclean’s.

There were those who thought Richard had it coming.

“I don’t remember what happened.”

likely suffering from a concussion

The New York Times’

just because he is a French-Canadian.

league’s history to that point

$250 for slapping the linesman Hayes with his glove.

most-fined player in the league

but as soon as I get on the ice I forget all that.

“Bailey tried to gouge his [Richard’s] eyes out,” Red Storey, who refereed that game, later told a reporter, “Rocket just went berserk.”

he grabbed the referee by the throat,

he was assessed 1,285 minutes in penalties.

His tantrums had become as legendary as his goals.

decibel-defying abandon.

Only 13 percent finished high school, compared to 36 percent for English-Canadians.

It was the time of la Grande Noirceur (the Great Darkness), when French-Canadians felt confined in their home province both by their language and ethnicity, the last vestige of New France

“He is more important than the cardinal or [Quebec Premier Maurice] Duplessis,” one fan told Sports Illustrated’s Gil Rogin.

“The singular and sudden pandemonium that shatters the Forum, like thunder and lightning” was “many decibels above in volume” the applause for any other goal, Herbert Warren Wind wrote in Sports Illustrated. “There is no sound quite like it in the whole world of sport.”

bleu-blanc-et-rouge

“You knew — everybody knew — that the game was over right then,”

Photo: Robert Riger/Getty Images

98 more than the next guy on the list

Richard averaged a goal a game

thought he was fragile

Lucille

o he applied as a machinist but was ineligible even though he had been working as one for years because he had did not have a high school diploma.

le Rocket

“Ask Laycoe.”

The punishment is worse for Richard.

The crowd, on its feet, cannot believe the madness before them.

Then Richard snatches a stick from the ice and swings it wildly at Laycoe. He cuts him below the eye.

Laycoe lunges at Richard.

when Laycoe confronts Richard,

Richard’s infamous temper.

who always refused to align himself with a political party,

reluctantly take his punishment.

the largest riot since Conscription was passed in 1944 (bringing in the draft for the final year of the Second World War) broke out along a seven-block length of Rue Ste.

and took his regular place

final three games of the season plus the entire Stanley Cup playoffs

and No. 9 had already previously walloped a referee.

Richard smacked the official.

cut on the head

to score 50 goals in a season

hockey was bigger than the Church, and Rocket Richard was bigger than the Pope."

Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice,

The blood of the Martyrs

that they had no sight for the objects which might have soiled purity.

why is this Barbarous country not all converted to you? Why is not sin abolished from it? Why are you not loved? Yes, my God, if all the torments which the captives can endure in these countries in the cruelty of the tortures, were to fall on me, I offer myself thereto with all my heart, and I alone will suffer them

through his goodness has given me a gentleness, benignity, and charity with respect to every one

Thou shalt have henceforth in thy words the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

He was the first to rise, [75] to make the fire and to cook, and the last of all in bed, finishing by night his prayers and his devotions

Finally, he never guided himself by these visions, although often God had

He had many notable apparitions of Our Lady, of Saint Joseph, of the Angels, and of the Saints.

although he had greatly suffered on a thousand occasions,—difficulties, fatigues, persecutions, griefs,—all was naught to him, and he complained of his misfortune,—believing that he had never suffered anything,

nd that I consume my life, in order to withdraw from the hands of Satan, your enemy, these poor souls who have cost you both your blood and your life.

the fact that his body had no strength except what the spirit of God

But let us leave these objects of horror, and these monsters of cruelty;

Father Gabriel Lallement had received a hatchet- blow on the left ear, which they had driven into his brain,

Before their death, both their hearts were torn out, by means of an opening above the breast;

At the height of these torments, [48] Father Gabriel Lallement lifted his eyes to Heaven, clasping his hands from time to time, and uttering sighs to God, whom he invoked to his aid.

An old woman, escaped from the midst of that fire,

About two hundred Iroquois having detached themselves from their main body,

Let us then die with them, and we shall go in company to Heaven.

Father Jean de Brebeuf and Father Gabriel Lallement,

This chapter would have no end

Infidel parents

have no more delightful conversation than to say their Rosaries

Toward the end of the Winter, some of the more stubborn Infidels having wished, for the cure of a sick man, to have recourse to certain [22] remedies, wherein indecency is, as it were, in its kingdom

Sainte Marie

Although some reasons might oblige me, perhaps, to be more reserved in publishing what follows, I have nevertheless believed it my duty to render to God the glory which is due him herein.

with 4 Canoes.

300 Sturgeon

making in all more than 40 casks of grain

There were 4 masse

All took place in Holy week very nearly as last year; the washing of feet at the hospital

On the 19th, occurred the first execution by the hand of the hangman, in the case of a [page 39] Creature of 15 or 16 years, a thief.

In fine, I saw and touched all the wounds of his body, as the savages had told and declared to us; we buried these precious Relics on Sunday, the 21st day of March, 1649, with much Consolation.

and he was not consumed.

and then put it to roast before his eyes, in order to eat it

They make six hatchets red-hot, take a large withe of green wood, pass the 6 hatchets over the large end of the withe, take the two ends together, and then put it over the neck of the sufferer

We are five in all, of the society,—three priests and two brethren; and we have six domestics, whose labor we greatly need for cultivating the earth, and for aiding the savages in the same way.

He who consoles the lowly has consoled us through Your Paternity' s letter, in which you promise relief to us,

ery

they were about to eat the flesh of one of their own number.

they must resort for food to wild roots and fruits

" the blessed deaths "

comforting!

Ste. Marie

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.

Quebec

4,000 livres.

father general

Deer, Bears, and Moose

person raised his eyes; at that moment the soul escaped, and there remained to him only the corpse in his arms, which he was constrained to bear to the tomb whence he had taken it

At the feast of the Dead, which takes place about every twelve years, the souls quit the cemeteries

T is amusing to hear them speak their souls,

Iouskeha

they hold that Iouskeha is the Sun and [92] Aataentsic the Moon

Aataentsic

Some say that one day, as she was working in her field, she perceived a Bear; her dog began to pursue it and she herself afterwards. The Bear, seeing himself closely pressed, and seeking only to escape the teeth of the dog, fell by accident into a hole; the dog followed him. Aataentsic, having approached this precipice, finding that neither the Bear nor the dog were any longer to be seen, moved by despair, threw herself into it also. Nevertheless, her fall happened to be more favorable than she had supposed; for she fell down into the waters without being hurt, although she was with child,—after which, the Waters having dried up little by little, the earth appeared and became habitable.

Ataentsi

star fell from Heaven in the form of a fat Goose.

I mean Chastity.

Cabins

they were overtaken with so profound a sleep, that the enemy, coming suddenly upon them, cleft open the heads of a dozen without resistance, the rest escaping by flight.

Immediately she began to improve,

who report had declared were all dead of the plague

which we humbly ask from them

English defeated the fleet of the Company of New France,

glorious Spouse of our Lady, the Protector of the Hurons

that the house of the French was a house of demons

defile their purity of body and beauty of soul

that they must now consider to which of these two places they preferred to go some day, forever

spoke properly

along with the little rewards

have scarcely ever been sick

The result is that they are now bringing us children to baptize from two, three, yes, even seven leagues away.

rescued from the service of the devil

Savages

corpses

Brébeuf recounts the many perils of the journey hither, and the annoyances and dangers to which apostles of the faith are continually exposed among the savages;

the Hurons are duly grateful.

The "sorcerers," or medicine men

show surprising aptitude and willingness to learn the doctrines of the Christian faith

eighty-six savages