Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trudels had a party at Quebec City last week. About 2,500 of them from near & far witnessed a pageant honoring their most renowned ancestor, attended high mass in the cathedral, heard speeches, went picnicking in suburban Boischatel. It was the 300th anniversary of the first Trudel's arrival in New France. The Trudels were not the first French Canadian family to hold a tercentenary celebration nor would they be the last.* But their party was noteworthy because the story of the Trudels is, in a sense, the story of French Canada...
Every day for weeks, pilgrims by the scores and hundreds have trudged to a grotto a few miles outside the gold-mining town of Val d'Or. Quebec There they hoped to see- some professed to see- a 13-year old girl work miracles...
Miracles of Val d'Or. As usual in such cases, there are skeptics. But many of Quebec's devout Roman Catholic people credit the child with performing miracles...
...miles east of St. Gregoire d'Iberville, Quebec, 30,000 persons gathered last week to watch Premier Maurice Duplessis unveil a 31-ft. granite cross. It was erected on the site of a log cabin where Alfred Bessette was born in 1846. Before Alfred Bessette died in 1937, he won a worldwide reputation for holiness and miracle-making...
...built, still later a third. Today the $6,000,000 Oratory of Saint Joseph is a great, concrete-domed structure topped with a neon-lighted cross that towers over Canada's "City of Churches." Ecclesiastical tribunals are already at work in Montreal, Providence, R.I., Ottawa, and St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, checking evidence and proceeding with the first steps that may lead to Brother Andre's canonization...