Queen of the Most Holy Rosary and Queen of Canada. In 1854, the year of the proclamation of the dogma of her Immaculate ConceptionNotre-Dame inspired a generous parishioner of Cap-de-la-Madeleine to donate to his church a Madonna of beautiful proportions, with downcast eyes and outstretched hands.
This statue will become the miraculous Virgin whose fame will extend beyond the borders of the country. This is the one that is still venerated today on the high altar of the sanctuary.
This statue will become, as if by right of conquest, the very Madonna of the Canadian pilgrimage, when a prodigy from heaven has marked it with its seal, and especially when, later, the diadem of royalty will encircle its forehead.
When Father Désilets was appointed parish priest, the parishioners had abandoned religious practice and the recitation of the Rosary. The priests who had preceded him had achieved no success. An anticlerical climate had been sown in the parish.
One evening, desolate, but not discouraged, Father Désilets entered the sanctuary. What was his surprise to see a pig chewing a rosary there. He said to himself: “men abandon the Rosary and it is pigs who take it up again.” This was the subject of his next sermon. The parishioners heard the message. Father Désilets promised Our Lady to revive devotion to the Holy Rosary. From that moment on, the parish changed its face. As usual, the rosary had won over souls: its old church took on the splendor of a private, local pilgrimage.
Slideshow on the pilgrimage to Canada
2023-10-07 03:41:38
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