DEATH IN THE WILDERNESS

For the first time in sixty years, a comprehensive and engaging history of all eight North American martyrs of the Catholic church.

The French Jesuit missionaries who worked among the Native tribes of what are now Canada and the United States are some of the lesser-known martyrs in Catholicism. These Jesuits were men of deep faith with a profound love for God and their neighbor, but they were also intellectuals--many of them had served on the faculty of Jesuit colleges in France. Yet they gave up all their comforts, all their privileges to serve as missionaries in an immense wilderness. In this compelling narrative, author Thomas J. Craughwell brings history alive and chronicles the adventures and ultimate demise of these men who journeyed to a
foreign land and died in service to God.

Thomas J. Craughwell is the author of Saints Behaving Badly, Urban Legends, Alligators in the Sewer and 222 Other Urban Legends, Saints for Every Occasion: 101 of Heaven's Most Powerful Patrons, and Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies? Every month he writes a column on patron saints for Catholic diocesan newspapers. In addition, he has written about saints for the the Wall Street Journal, St. Anthony Messenger, and Catholic Digest and has discussed saints on CNN and EWTN. His book Stealing Lincoln's Body was made into a two-hour documentary on the History Channel.