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What a fabulous building! just amzing! And pictures don't do it justice!

great!!!!!! beautiful place!!

Beautiful building indeed! Its construction was initiated by Frère André, who is going to be canonized on october 17. Perhaps even more people will visit the Oratoire as a consequence.

P.S. Rumors : great job with the Quebec forum by the way.

I heard that their will be a celebration at the olympic park for this event.

Beautiful building indeed! Its construction was initiated by Frère André, who is going to be canonized on october 17. Perhaps even more people will visit the Oratoire as a consequence.

P.S. Rumors : great job with the Quebec forum by the way.

Thanks david . I have some more photos to post. :yes:

Beautiful building indeed! Its construction was initiated by Frère André, who is going to be canonized on october 17. Perhaps even more people will visit the Oratoire as a consequence.

P.S. Rumors : great job with the Quebec forum by the way.

Indeed, this section has been more active in this last week than it has been for months, keep it up rumors.

Indeed, this section has been more active in this last week than it has been for months, keep it up rumors.

Thanks. :)

Frère André a construit cette petite église./ Brother André built this little church. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2478/3547661860_1d5ec9721e_b.jpg

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Ken Kaminesky by Courtesy

This has always been an amazing pilgrimage church, I believe the central section between the lower and upper chapels where people light candles and where the tomb of Brother Andre is located was designed by Ernest Cormier, though someone please correct me if I am mistaken.

By CBC News, cbc.ca, Updated: October 17, 2010 8:38 AM
Montreal's Brother Andre becomes a saint

The Roman Catholic Church has, for the first time, made a Canadian-born man a saint.

Brother André Bessette and four others were canonized by Pope Benedict XVI during a ceremony at St. Peter's Square on Sunday. Thousands of believers have credited him with working miracles, and the campaign to make him a saint has continued since his death in 1937 at age 91.

The other new saints include Mother Mary MacKillop, the founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Australia's outback, Stanislaw Soltys, a 15th-century Polish priest, Italian nuns Giulia Salzano and Battista Varano and Spanish nun Candida Maria de Jesus Cipitria y Barriola.

In Montreal, the faithful crowded around a big-screen television at St. Joseph's Oratory to watch the ceremony.

Pope Benedict noted that Brother Andre was poorly educated but understood what was essential to his faith.

"Doorman at the Notre Dame College in Montreal, he showed boundless charity and did everything possible to soothe the despair of those who confided in him," Benedict said.

Brother André, who was once called the Miracle Man of Montreal, founded St. Joseph's Oratory, tucked into the slope of Mount Royal, overlooking the city.

He was declared venerable in 1978 and beatified in 1982 after a case of healing in 1956 was recognized officially by the Vatican as a miracle.

Over the years, millions of people have signed petitions asking for his sainthood.

{QUOTE}made a Canadian-born man a saint.{/QUOTE}
Funny, coz the same news broadcaster kept pegging the saint as a --uhm-- mere immigrant just days ago...

I visited it at night, it's a great place to just sit on the stairs directly under it. Quite beautiful.