Word: beaupr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other day, I heard, to my great sorrow, that the lovely Church of Ste. Anne de Beaupré outside of Quebec, Canada, was burned last year. Having always cherished a secret, and not altogether unfounded, desire to visit this church, I would like to know if you can give me (but of course you can) any details regarding the catastrophy and also any information you may know concerning the plans for the rebuilding of this delightful church...
Demolition. There was a raveled place in the silk insulation around an electric wire in the Church of Ste. Anne de Beaupré. On Mar. 29, 1922, the flame, thrusting through the wire, burned away the last strands of silk and began to crackle in a piece of dry wood. That wood was a crutch-stick, one of hundreds piled there together-some thick as fagots, the canes of maimed sailors; some the spindling, pathetic splinters that had propelled crippled children-left behind as testaments of those who, kneeling in the basilica, had been healed by the Holy Ghost...
...Catholic churches of Canada are proving suspiciously inflammable. In the last nine months the three oldest shrines in the ancient province of Quebec have been destroyed by fire-St. Anne de Beaupré noted for its miraculous cures; the Trappist monastery at Oka, and the Basilica at Quebec. The Basilica was built in 1647 and contained magnificent windows and irreplaceable historical documents. The loss...