The Real Story of Saint Anthony Daniel

The North American Jesuit Marytrs, including
Saint Anthony Daniel

Saint Anthony Daniel was born and raised in Normandy, France, and studied philosophy and law before entering the Jesuit Order. After studying with the Jesuits for over 10 years, Saint Anthony Daniel was sent to be a missionary in the New World to the Huron Indians in Canada. Saint Anthony was both an administrator and a teacher in a school for Huron indian boys. In the year 1648, Anthony Daniel was working with a parish of Huron Indians, when the village and parish were attacked by hostile, Iroquois indians. Saint Anthony Daniel was a Jesuit Reader and frontiersman. He wore buckskin clothes with his roman collar showing from underneath. Saint Anthony also wore chain mail underneath his buckskins. Saint Anthony Daniel ushered his parishoners into the parish church for protection, where they escaped through a secret passageway under the altar. Saint Anthony Daniel, a true Hero for Christ, then advanced against the hostile Iroquois, armed with a crossbow, a hunting knife, and a rapier sword. Saint Anthony Daniel killed over 15 Iroquois warriors, in turn, before he was shot with three arrows in the chest. Daniel had a near death experience from the arrow wounds, although the arrows did not pierce his chain mail coat. Hours after the Iroquois left, Saint Anthony Daniel woke up and descrbibed Purgatory, on the other side, where he had been with his Immortal Soul. This account, and Saint Anthony Daniel's remarkable "rise from the dead" caused his Jesuit Superiors great consternation. It was agreed that Saint Anthony Daniel's death would be faked, and that he would be exiled to Kentucky, where he took on the name Daniel Boone, and lived in Kentucky for over 100 years.
(This is an Allegorical Tale, much like a biblical story).
(C)Perpetual Copyright (2011) by Anthony J. Fejfar and Anthony J. Faber, and,
Neothomism, P.C. (PA)