Text on the Front (North) Plaque:
Isaac Jogues
Apostle
of
The Mohawks
At Their Castle
Ossernenon
On This Site
A.D. 1642-1646
Born at Orleans, France
A.D. . . . — — Map (db m88320) HM
Kateri Tekakwitha
Iroquois Maiden
Born A.D. 1656
At Ossernenon Auriesville
Living here until 1666
At Caughnawaga, Fonda, 1667-1677
and baptized there
Easter Sunday 1676
at Caughnawaga, Canada 1677
until her death, . . . — — Map (db m88331) HM
It was here that America’s only Canonized Martyrs the Jesuit priest Father Isaac Jogues, the Jesuit lay-brother Rene’ Goupil and John Lalande shed their blood for Christ in 1642 and 1646. Here also, in this Indian village of Ossernenon the Lily of . . . — — Map (db m70846) HM