"Charity has been the function of the church. Now it's the team who is taking charge of the social life, visiting children in hospitals, inviting children to see a game or giving money to charity… Does that mean they have kind of a religious role?" he asked.
This is interesting that someone from Quebec is inserting hockey and professional teams into social and religious life as a substitute for the church
Another example of religious behaviour is an expectation of sacrifice, Bauer said. "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.
This is an interesting analogy, but I wonder how many religious people would agree?
to study whether the Canadiens are, in fact, a faith.
It is interesting enough that this question is even posed in the first place. I wonder if American football could also be counted as a religion?
Bauer said he might demonstrate his neutrality on the subject by lecturing in a referee jersey.
Honestly a pretty smart idea to not only state his neutrality but to also show is physcially
Theriot was a harbinger of the 1960 election of Quebec premier JeanLesage, which gave Francophiles a greater sense of empowerment,and the so-called Quiet Revolution, in which French Quebecoisbegan asserting greater control over their lives.
It is interesting that Quebec nationalists can trace their poltiical revivalry back to a hockey game
Campbell stuck out his hand. He got a slap in theface.
You can almost claim it is his own doing for being willing to show up? Obviously assault is not cool but people in Quebec take their hockey seriously, especially when it comes to Richards
Campbell not only ignored the mayor's advice but alsomade a diva's entrance at the Forum, taking his customary aisleseat in a corner of the arena a few minutes into the firstperiod.
Sounds like he was willing to see 'all hell break lose' even when he knew there were going to be issues
Campbell's rulingwas considered an act not of justice but of vindictiveness, theEnglish-speaking boss thwarting the aspirations of theFrench-speaking populist hero.
Seems to be a classist and even a language issue since Quebec has struggled with discrimination for speaking French before
No athlete has embodied the soul of a city and the spirit of itspeople as Richard did in the 1940s and '50s in Montreal
This even be shown in the cartoon "The Sweater" that I watched earlier where 'The Rocket' was portrayed as larger than life
Sportsriots have become commonplace, but the one in '55 was like noother because one of its central figures
We have seen it time and time again, where sports teams become heated and fight one another. But like this article states, nothing was quite like the riot in Montreal in '55
“The Babe Ruth of hockey,” Wind wrote.
A very telling analogy for American readers regardless if they follow baseball or not
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.
Honestly, that is amazing stamina
In 1939, when war broke out in Europe, the 18-year-old Richard tried to enlist for active duty, but military doctors determined his wrists and ankle — already broken during hockey games — had not healed properly. He tried to enlist again the following year, but was again turned away. So 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. He began training at the Montreal Technical School to get a certificate that would allow him to serve, but the war ended before he completed the four-year course.
Even after being turned away again and again, Richard was determined to serve in the military someway somehow
The oldest of eight children, he quit school at 16 to work with his father in the factory.
Richard was set on pursuing a career in hockey or following the trade of his father rather than pursuing an education
The punishment is worse for Richard.
Pretty telling of the political climate in Quebec at this time
Incensed, Richard swings his stick with two-fisted fury at Laycoe. He hits him with such force across the shoulders that his stick splinters. Laycoe sheds his gloves and rushes at Richard, who drops his gloves. The two thrash at one another with their fists.
Again, I don't really know or understand hockey but I have only ever heard of this kind of violence in brawls outside of the court or when a batter rushes the pitcher during baseball
It’s March 13, 1955. The tension between the two rivals in the six-team NHL has been building inside the Boston Garden all night.
Everyone in the audience could tell that this was bigger than a game
And more, it is not just a matter of hockey.”
Even though hockey was incredibly important to the culture of Quebec, everyone recognized that this was bigger than just a game
or perhaps just the end of a time when hockey was more important than politics, as the latter began to take hold among French Canadian youth.
It is interesting that many people view this as the beginning of Quebec's Quiet Revolution since it was a hockey game rather than something like a battle or massacre that started it
less than a minute later a homemade tear gas bomb went off.
These fans are taking it to a whole nother level at this point
Richard's coal-black eyes glowed with defiance, danger and pure disgust for losing.
No wonder he was such an idol to young hockey fans
The Hockey Sweater.
I love this kind of animation. This kind of reminded the other cartoon we watched a couple of years ago about the magic canoe that flew through the air
"hockey was bigger than the Church, and Rocket Richard was bigger than the Pope
Sounds very French...
How Francophone players in the NHL, almost exclusively the property of the Montreal Canadiens, believed they were more harshly treated by league president Clarence Campbell — especially Richard — when it came time to dish out suspensions and fines.
There is a race/class issue to this kind of violence
it was crucial to know how violent the National Hockey League was in those days.
I don't understand hockey very well both inside or outside the US but it still seems pretty violent to me
On such days as these the men scarcely left the house except to care for the beasts, and came back on the run, their faces rasped with the cold and shining-wet with snow-crystals melted by the heat of the house.
This is why it was so important to keep a fire going in the house so that the people inside do not have to rely on making another one for their survival
cake of maple sugar
Uhh yum!
Is your pump working well?"
This is kind of rude, but then again it is kind of expected to come from a brother in law
we shall push up so soon as the river is clear, and if we pitch a tent above the falls close to your farm I will spend the evening with you." "That is good, François, we will expect you."
Love interest alert haha. They are already making plans together
But to see this young man after seven years, and to hear his name spoken, aroused in Maria memories clearer and more lively than she was able to evoke of the events and sights of yesterday.
She is somewhat smitten with him as well since she's beginning to remeber him
The young man did not answer; he was looking expectantly at Maria with a frank smile, awaiting a word from her.
Aw, he's smitten haha
Little by little the groups before the church dissolved. Some returned to their houses, after picking up all the news that was going; others, before departing, were for spending an hour in one of the two gathering places of the village; the curé's house or the general store
Kind of reminds me of Little House on the Praire where the church was always a huge location for gatherings and where people always caught up with one another
"Right you are! A fine hearty girl, and one with plenty of spirit too. A pity that she lives so far off in the woods. How are the young fellows of the village to manage an evening at their place, on the other side of the river and above the falls, more than a dozen miles away and the last of them with next to no road?"
So it is kind of hard to court this girl because she is located so far away from everyone else
parish
I never really understood what a "parish" was until I went to Florida. It is much more of a French thing than an American tradition. Instead, we have countys
Everyone drew his pipe from his pocket, and the pig's bladder filled with tobacco leaves cut by hand, and, after the hour and a half of restraint, began to smoke with evident satisfaction. The first puffs brought talk of the weather,
It is interesting that smoking was such a social thing. It is not much more now a days
But as the men and boys passed through the doorway and gathered
Why is it only the males in the town gathering?
Peribonka
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.
There is a very realistic portrayl of events like this in the movie 'Black Robe' from 1991 that illustrates the hardships of both the Hurons and the Jesuit priests in Lower Canada. It also vividly depicts their violent altercations with one another so viewers beware.
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.
At least the author is recognizing that there is a possibility that these stories could be untrue, but in his own experience he believes that they are valid since he has seen and heard of the Huron brutality many times
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.
Even though they hated the man enough to kill him, it is interesting to see that they may have still respected his courage at least
Father would soon die, made an opening in the upper part of his chest, and tore out his heart, which he roasted and ate
What! This sounds gruesome and all, and if true it very much was so but I part of me wonders if this even is true since this account does seem to be coming from a Jesuit priest as well. Why wouldn't they try to beef up the heroism of the slain priest? Then again, they may have no reason to share this terrifying story either because it could very well scare other French Jesuit priests from joining them in Canada to spread the Good Word
His zeal was so great that he preached continually to these infidels, to try to convert them
Incredible faith in his Lord
The barbarian, having said that, took a kettle full of boiling water, which he poured over his body three different times, in derision of Holy baptism. And, each time that he baptized him in this manner, the barbarian said to him, with bitter sarcasm, " Go to Heaven, for thou art well baptized." After that, they made him suffer several other torments. The 1st was to make hatchets red-hot, and to apply them to the loins and under the armpits. They made a collar of these red-hot hatchets, and put it on the neck of this good Father. This is the fashion in which I have seen the collar made for other prisoners: 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. I slave seen no torment which more moved me to compassion than that. For you see a man, bound naked to a post, who, having this collar on his neck, cannot tell what posture to take. For, if he lean forward, those above his shoulders weigh the more on him; if he lean back, those on his stomach make him suffer the same torment; if he keep erect, without leaning to one side or other, the burning ratchets, applied equally on both sides, give him a trouble torture.
This is an awful way to be tortured. I can't imagine ever going through anything life this...
whom Father de Brebœuf had formerly instructed and baptized,—hearing him speak Paradise and Holy Baptism, was irritated, and said [page 27] to him, " Echon," that is Father de Brebœuf's name in Huron, " thou sayest that Baptism and the sufferings of this life lead straight to Paradise; thou wilt go soon, for I am going to baptize thee, and to make thee suffer well, in order to go the sooner to thy Paradise."
ohhh got em...burn literally
he did not cease continually to speak of God, and to encourage all the new Christians who were captives like himself to suffer well, that they might die well, in order to go in company with him to Paradise
This could be a good example of Martydom in the Jesuit religion, however, the Huron behavior towards the Jesuits may also be justified since the Jesuits may not have respected them as much as they should have
They tore the nails from their fingers.
I watched a movie about Jesuit Relations with the Huron tribes last semester in my Colonial America class. I remeber a vivid scene where a child was killed in front of his sister since they were from an enemy tribe and they were helping Jesuit priests. Other people were harmed by their nails being ripped from their fingers...
that we perceived a great fire at the place to which these two good Fathers had gone. This fire made us very uneasy; we
It makes sense why they were so uneasy, they are in a foreign place and you never know what dangers surround you in an unfamiliar place
Their usual reply is, oniondechouten, "Such is the custom of our country.
It is honestly kind of neat how the Hurons had their own word for a a whole phrase basically saying "Leave us to our own customs". Obviously, this also serves as a great barrier to the Jesuits since the Hurons use it as an excuse for many things that the Jesuits don't support
Louyse
French given name, probably not orignal Huron name
The result is that they are now bringing us children to baptize from two, three, yes, even seven leagues away.
Some Protestant denominations believe and support the idea of Baptism at a young age. Does the Jesuit sect not support this tradition and instead recommend baptism at an older age?
But Our Lord, who willed to save this soul, immediately sent us a young man, who served us as interpreter.
This is kind of interesting. As a person of faith, this would seem as an answer to prayer to help with the conversion of the Hurons. However, they may not have all their priorities in line to convert the Indians
there are among these Tribes many errors, superstitions, vices, and utterly evil customs to uproot
Complete disrespect of the culture of the natives
Frenchmen will greatly aid not only to bring together and encourage to work the idle and wandering Savages
Again with the backstabbing pity of the Europeans.
poor Barbarians
It has always interested me how in current times, terms like "Barabarians" and 'savages' have a negative connotation, which makes sense clearly. However, in the past they were terms used for the Native American tribes. I've never been able to undertand why writers like this use the term in an almost endearing manner like they have pity on them because they don't see them as 'civilized' and 'proper' as the Europeans.
how old France is burning with ardent desires for the New;
Do they have this "burning" desire for the sake of wealth, land, or religious purposes?
happy death
I wonder if the Hurons's would agree that it was a "happy death"