Footprints in the Wilderness

Fr. William Breault, a Jesuit whose Sacramento Community is dedicated to the French Martyrs of North America, learns that one of the martyrs, René Goupil, was originally turned away by the Jesuit Order but volunteered for the Canadian missions anyway.

Learn about what impelled René Goupil and the martyrs to dedicate themselves to the foreign missions.

Goupil and the newly arriving Jesuit missionaries find themselves in the middle of a war between the Huron and Iroquois tribes.

Goupil tells Father Jogues of his lifelong unfulfilled desire to become a Jesuit, and Jogues administers the vows, making Goupil a Jesuit Brother.