Pierre D'Artaguiette, a French commander, was defeated in battle with Chickasaw Indians on Sunday, May 20, 1736. A week later, D'Artaguiette, Francois-Marie Bissot De Vincennes, Father Antoine Senat, a Jesuit missionary, and twenty captured Frenchmen in all were burned at the stake by their captors. Scorning the offer to escape martyrdom, Father Senat remained with his comrades and, intoning the miserere, led them into the flames.
