In 1652 Paul Raguenau went through the "Relations" and pulled out material relating to the martyrs of New France. He formalized this material in a document, to be used as the foundation of canonization proceedings, entitled "Memoires touchant la mort et les vertus (des Pères Jesuits)," or the "Manuscript of 1652." The religious communities in New France considered the Jesuit martyrs as imitators of previous saints in the Catholic Church. In this sense, Brébeuf in particular, and others like him, reinforced the notion that "...Canada was a land of saints".