Grammie asked if she could take the kids on a pilgrimage to St. Anne De Beaupre's in Canada.
I said I would like to go too and since Pat had a GM vehicle to use the week of June 5th
we decided to just go....despite planning for our new move.
What a grace: as we arrived in the Church thinking we were just going to make a visit and look around a lady came up to us and volunteered to find us a priest for confession.
Then, what started with a few questions of inquiry turned into a 2 1/2 hrs + tour. I did not focus on the camera getting all the detail, but the Church is just amazingly beautiful and rich with it.
This is the original church, which was moved to this new spot.
Here "Marie" (whose husband has the keys to the Church) took us right by St, Annes relic of her arm.
The statue of St. Anne, similar to the famous, original one outside on top of Church, that is wood (now plated with gold) but the only thing that survived the 1920 fire.
Marie said we had to feel the stained glass.
At the end she took us through the "secret passageway" up to back
behind the altar and then into the sacristy.
St. Joseph's Oratory ~ Montreal
It has the third largest dome (for Christianity) close to the dome of St. Peter's in Rome.
Long Steps
The museum had numerous different creches from different nationalities and life size walk through of St. Joseph's/The Holy Families life
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