Francesco Giuseppe Bressani, an Italian missionary, member of the society of Jesus, born in Rome in 1612, died in Florence, Sept. 9, 1672. He was sent to Canada, and spent two years among the Indians near Quebec. In the spring of 1644 he was directed to go on a mission to the Hurons. On the way he was captured by a party of Iroquois, who subjected him to fearful torture. They then made him over to an old squaw, to take the place of a deceased relative; she sent him to the Dutch of Fort Orange, now Albany, who paid a large ransom for him, kept him until his strength was restored, and then put him on board a vessel bound for La Rochelle, where he arrived on Nov. 15. In the following spring, maimed and disfigured, he returned to Canada, and was again sent to the Hurons, with whom he remained till 1650, when, his health being broken down, he returned to Italy. His Relazione dei missionarj della compagnia de Gesu nella Nuova-Francia (Macerata, 1653) was translated into English in Montreal in 1852.