The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs

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The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs is written by Emma Anderson and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674727177 (ISBN 10) and 9780674727175 (ISBN 13).

In the 1640s eight Jesuits met a terrifying death at the hands of native antagonists. In 1930 they were canonized as North America's first saints. The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs illuminates these seminal acts of violence and charts their ever-changing, controversial legacy, or "afterlife," across almost four centuries.