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Notre-Dame-de-Foy (Montaigu)
In 1618, a Sanctuary (Église Notre-Dame-de-Foy, rue des Claviats 4, 5504 Foy-Notre-Dame, Belgique) was built to her devotion because the statue had brought miraculous cures. They sculptured several replica statues of Notre-Dame-de-Foy from the same oak tree. These replica statues measured about six inches in height. And three of these statues were sent to New France. In 1675, Father Jacques Bruyas had received a replica of the statue, for Saint Mary’s Chapel in Tionnontoguen. And he had written that the unbelievers told him, from the time Mary’s image is in their village, which they are without fear and have received very evident marks of her protection. In 1672, a replica statue was sent to Marguerite Bourgeoys of the Congregation of Notre-Dame at Ville Marie (Montréal), for the Notre-Dame Chapel adjoining to the hospital Hôtel-Dieu. The hospital Hôtel-Dieu was of the Religious Hospitalers of Saint-Joseph. In 1678, the chapel was replaced with the first stone built church in Ville Marie (Montréal), and the statue of Notre-Dame-de-Foy was then placed there for veneration. In 1678, Catherine Tekakwitha had visited Ville Marie, where she had seen the Sisters of the Religious Hospitalers of Saint-Joseph and the Notre-Dame Chapel, where was the statue of Notre-Dame-de-Foy. She without doubt had prayed to before the statue of her beloved Mother, and also without doubt had seen Sister (Saint) Marguerite Bourgeoys. Presently, the statue of Notre-Dame-de-Foy (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours) is at the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, 400 est, rue Saint Paul, Montréal (Québec). The present location of the Sisters of the Religious Hospitaliers of Saint-Joseph is at, 251 ouest, avenue des Pins, Montréal.
In February 2004, a 16 ins. X 25½ ins. copy of the portrait of Blessed Catherine Tekakwitha by Father Claude Chauchetière was sent to Sœur Nicole Brussières, of the convent, “Les Religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph”1 at 251 ouest, avenue des Pins, Montréal. She replied in her letter dated February 9, 2004, that the portrait was received and was to be placed at a place of honour on the walls of the their convent. Also, on June 27, 2005, a 8 ins. X 13 ins. copy of the portrait of Blessed Catherine Tekakwitha by Father Claude Chauchetière was sent to Sœur Claire Gagnon of “Les Augustines de la miséricorde de Jésus” to the convent “Monastère de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec”2 at 32, rue Charlevoix, Québec. She had it placed in the convent in the “Galerie des saints et bienheureux ”.
1 “Les Religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph” was the same order of Sisters that had the charge of l’Hôtel-Dieu hospital, and Catherine Tekakwitha had visited in Montréal in 1678. 2 “Les Augustines de la miséricorde de Jésus” was the same order of Sisters that had the charge of the l’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, and was there that Marie Skarichions had stayed while she was sick in Québec. The present location was the location since 1644. |
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