Sainte-Anne-De-Beaupre shrine: Basilica with miraculous statue of patron St. Anne (Part – 1)

By Asad Russel – 

About the Sainte-Anne-De-Beaupre shrine, Sanite-Anne de Beaupre, Canada:
On the St Lawrence River in the shores a tiny town is the Sainte-Anne-De-Beaupre, in Canada above Quebec City about 20 miles. To the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-De-Beaupre is home the village and also named for the village, a major shrine of Catholic and of healing the place which per year a million pilgrims more than attacks.

The history of the Sainte-Anne-De-Beaupre shrine:
Of St. Anne a miraculous statue to house in 1658 by the early settlers on this site was built the first chapel. For local pilgrimage a site it had become by the 1688, and the First Nation who are called in Canada the Native Americans by the 1707 to venerate the saint were coming as the ‘Grandmother in the Faith’ which they called. In 1658 of a crippled workman the cure was at the Beaupre of St. Anne to the intercession attributed the first miracle. From a storm of sailors of a group by the deliverance this was followed soon.

To the present day over the centuries to the miraculous statue to be attributed continued the healings and miracles. Needed no longer with the folded wheelchairs, canes and crutches is stacked in the basilica the ex-voto chapel, of healing and deliverance paintings as well as.

Between the 1661 and 1676 of wood and stone was constructed of St. Anne a second church, of the old cemetery in the present site it was located. In 1676 of stone was built a third church, and in 1876 by a basilica it was replaced until remained in use. In 1878 was demolished the old church, but of its transept on the foundations was constructed the Memorial Chapel.

The patron saint of Quebec was proclaimed the Saint Anne in 1876. For the worship was opened of Sainte-Anne-De-Beaupre the first Basilica which than the previous church much larger. In 1892 by the pope was sent to Beaupre of St. Anne when a relic, in New York it stopped, first appearance of its was cured where an epileptic. Followed the great excitement, and from on that point tremendously increased in Canada to the Sainte-Anne-De-Beaupre the pilgrims from America.

On March 29 in 1922 by the fire was destroyed tragically the first basilica. By the present basilica it was replaced, in 1926 was completed which. On July 4, 1976 the basilica constructed the Cardinal Maurice Roy, and on September 10, 1984 the shrine was visited by the Pope John Paul II.

At the Sainte-Anne-De-Beaupre shrine what to see:
From the 1926 though dating, a number of artworks and sculptures of 18th century contains the present basilica. For the eyes a feast is the interior, delightful details filled with. Beautifully the light which suffuses a new technique using were created the stained glass windows of 240. The saint of Canada of St. Anne of the life in mosaics are covered of the church the sides and ceiling, of Jesus from the life 88 scenes and designs of geometrical and figurative. Of plants and animals with the carved figures of Creation the story tell of the wooden pews the ends.

Will Continue……..

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