BOOK EXCERPT: Mark Bourrie's Crosses in the Sky a sober portrait of cultures colliding

In the early 1600s, the Jesuits tried to create their own nation on the Great Lakes and turn the Huron (Wendat) Confederacy into a model Jesuit state. Missionary Jean de Brébeuf was the mystic at the centre of these efforts, living among a people who struggled to cope with the norms of the religious order he represented. Ottawa author Mark Bourrie's Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and the Destruction of Huronia, is the first secular biography of Brébeuf. Following is an excerpt from the book. Read More