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Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre

Sainte Anne, Quebec, Canada
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About Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre

The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre is a basilica set along the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, 30 kilometres east of Quebec City, and one of the five national shrine of Canada. It has been credited by the Catholic Church with numerous wonders of restoring the wiped out and handicapped. It is an essential Catholic asylum, which gets about a half-million travelers every year. Since 1933 they have included individuals from the Anna Fusco Pilgrimage from Connecticut, United States of America.

The pinnacle time of journey is around July 26, the devour of Saint Anne, the benefactor holy person of Quebec. The basilica in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre was at first a sanctuary to respect Saint Anne. On March 8, 1658, pilgrim Etienne de Lessard gave two frontal sections of land from the west end of his property to the Catholic Church, so a house of prayer could be assembled. This house of prayer in the end turned into the site of the cutting edge basilica. The sanctuary was worked to give a position of love to the new pioneers in the region and to house a wonderful statue of St. Anne.

The primary revealed supernatural occurrence at the site occurred amid the sanctuary's development. A man named Louis Guimond was procured to help assemble the holy place despite the fact that he experienced stiffness. In the wake of setting three stones upon the hallowed place's establishment, Guimond was relieved of every one of his diseases. This was trailed by different declarations of recuperated individuals, and the hallowed place before long developed in prominence.

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