Read about this almost-forgotten hero by clicking here.
Especially because Joseph’s cause for canonization has not yet been officially opened, Pilgrimage Director asks all who obtain favors by prayer to Joseph Chiouatenhoua to notify your local bishop.
And then please also email the Pilgrimage Director to inform him as well.
You can read more about this unsung st. Joseph Chiouatenhoua in an entire chapter devoted to his conversion, life, and martyrdom in the Jesuit Father’s Huron Relations for 1637 and 1638.
Cf. chapter 5, pp. 152-155, Huron Relations for 1637 and 1638 by François Le Mercier, S.J., ed. by Lucien Campeau, S.J., constituting Document 112 Part 2 in Monumenta Novae Franciae: vol. 3; ISBN 88-7041-130-8, copyright Institutum Historicum Societasis Jesu, Rome and L’Universite Laval, Québec, 1987 and Document 52 Part 2 in Monumenta Novae Franciae: vol. 4; ISBN 2-89-007-684-9 (v.4), Institutum Historicum Societasis Jesu, Rome and copyright Les Editions Bellarmin, Montréal, 1989; in Volume 9-1 of the series Early Jesuit Missions in Canada post-translated by William Lonc, S.J. ISBN 0-9734558-2-9, Legal Deposit, Ottawa, 2004.
milestone 30th annual
Friday – Sunday
26-28 September A.D. 2025
“Nobody makes pilgrimage alone.”
“In unione orationum.”
“Now is the acceptable time.“
Registration is open.
Click here to register.
Jump-start your plans, even if you are not sure you can make it to Auriesville. PRE-register. It’s simple: remit a pre-fee of $35, and you are left free to decide later whether you can make it or not.
You can also make pilgrimage from afar, from home or parish: obtain a plenary indulgence, sponsor a pilgrim, request prayers or offer them — all from this page.
Listen to and learn the Songs of Pilgrimage!
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“No one makes pilgrimage alone.” Oremus pro invicem. In unione orationum. Ad majorem Dei gloriam. “Nobody makes pilgrimage alone.”
