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the sign of the cross and bowed his head. One of the chiefs approached him and said: "Give up your hateful religion, do not mislead the people anymore, and we will make you our counselor and our chief, and we will spare you." He replied: "I cannot consent to this; I prefer to die." Berthieu bowed his head in prayer once more, two men fired but missed him. Another fired a fifth shot, which hit
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Berthieu was born on 27 November 1838 in the area of Montlogis, in Polminhac, in the Auvergne in central France, the son of deeply Christian farmers of modest means. His childhood was spent working and studying, surrounded by his family. The early death of an older sister left him the oldest
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from him, saying: "Is this your amulet? Is it thus that you mislead the people? Will you continue to pray for a long time?" He responded: "I have to pray until I die." One of them then struck
Berthieu's forehead with a machete; Berthieu fell to his knees, bleeding profusely. The Menalamba then led
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and prepared himself for the mission. The beginnings of his missionary life were not easy for this 37-year-old Jesuit. Climate, language, and culture were all totally new things which made him exclaim, "My uselessness and my spiritual misery serve to humiliate me, but not to discourage me. I await
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units. Berthieu sought to place the
Christians under the protection of French troops. Deprived of this protection by a French colonel whom Berthieu had chastised for his behavior with the women of the country, Berthieu led a convoy of Christians towards Antananarivo and stopped in the village of
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CAPPELLA PAPALE FOR THE CANONIZATION OF THE BLESSEDS: James
Berthieu, Pedro Calungsod, John Baptist Piamarta, Maria of mt Carmel Sallés y Barangueras, Marianne Cope, Kateri Tekakwitha, Anna Schäffer
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the hour when I can do something, with the grace of God". Mindful of his farming background, he was happy to cultivate the kitchen garden that supplied the station. He and two other
Jesuits and the
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Ambohibemasoandro. On 8 June 1896 Menalamba fighters entered the village and found
Berthieu hiding in the house of a Protestant friend. They seized him and stripped him of his
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