Esteiiaron de tsonoue, Jesous ahatonhia!

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Esteiaron de tsonoue, Jesous ahatonhia.
Onna-ouate oua d'oki n'ou ouanda skoua en tak.
En nonchien skouatchi hotak, n'on ouandi lonra chata,
Jesous ahatonhia, Jesous ahatonhia, Jesous ahatonhia.

Source: Voices: Native American hymns and worship resources #59

Author: St. Jean de Brébeuf

Jean de Brébeuf, Jesuit missionary, born at Condé-sur-Vire in Normandy, 25 March, 1593; died in Canada, near Georgian Bay, 16 March, 1649. His desire was to become a lay brother, but he finally entered the Society of Jesus as a scholastic, 8 November, 1617. According to Ragueneau it was 5 October. Though of unusual physical strength, his health gave way completely when he was twenty-eight, which interfered with his studies and permitted only what was strictly necessary, so that he never acquired any extensive theological knowledge. On 19 June, 1625, he arrived in Quebec, with the Recollect, Joseph de la Roche d' Aillon, and in spite of the threat which the Calvinist captain of the ship made to carry him back to France, he remained in the… Go to person page >

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First Line: Esteiaron de tsonoue, Jesous ahatonhia
Title: Esteiiaron de tsonoue, Jesous ahatonhia!
Original Language: Wyandot (Huron)
Author: St. Jean de Brébeuf (c. 1640)
Language: Wyandot (Huron)
Copyright: Public Domain

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