Sure do especially summer and fall. Celtic colors in October is wonderful but lots of talent here all summer and fall for sure.
One of my best memories is being there for Celtic Colors. We have a very long and loving association with Cape Breton. A place of incredible beauty--scenery and people.
I always had a yen to get to the Basilica of st Anne in Quebec and to visit the grave of St Andre Bisset and the Basilica of St Joseph there.
I was just racking my brains there now. Have there been any modern Canadian saints, say in the last 50 years ? I was trying to think of some.
Father Mark Goring? I think any Catholic who maintains their Faith in these Dark Times is very exceptional; but yes Fr Mark strikes me as a saint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_Catholic_saints_and_beatified_people Saints Martyrs of North America: Jean de Brébeuf (1593–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Manche, France – Ontario, Canada) Noël Chabanel (1613–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Haute-Loire, France – Ontario, Canada) Antoine Daniel (1601–1648), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Seine-Maritime, France – Ontario, Canada) Charles Garnier (1605–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Paris, France – Ontario, Canada) Isaac Jogues (1602–1646), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Orléanais, France – New York, United States) Gabriel Lallemant (Lalemant) (1610–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Paris, France – Ontario, Canada) René Goupil (1607–1642), Professed Religious of the Jesuits (Maine-et-Loire, France – New York, United States) Jean de Lalande (1620–1646), Professed Religious of the Jesuits (Seine-Maritime, France – New York, United States) Beatified: June 21, 1925 by Pope Pius XI Canonized: June 29, 1930 by Pope Pius XI Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774–1821), Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of Halifax (New York City, USA – Emmitsburg, Maryland, USA) Declared "Venerable": December 18, 1959 Beatified: March 17, 1963 by Pope John XXIII Canonized: September 14, 1975 by Pope Paul VI Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700), Founder of the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame (Aube, France – Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": June 19, 1910 Beatified: November 12, 1950 by Pope Pius XII Canonized: October 31, 1982 by Pope John Paul II Marie-Marguerite d'Youville née Dufrost de Lajemmerais (1701–1771), Widow; Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Montréal (Gray Sisters) (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": March 3, 1955 Beatified: May 3, 1959 by Pope John XXIII Canonized: December 9, 1990 by Pope John Paul II Alfred Bessette (André) (1845–1937), Professed Religious of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": June 12, 1978 Beatified: May 23, 1982 by Pope John Paul II Canonized: October 17, 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI Kateri Tekakwitha (c. 1656–1680), Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Montréal (New York, United States – Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": January 3, 1943 Beatified: June 22, 1980 by Pope John Paul II Canonized: October 21, 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI Marie Guyart Martin (Marie of the Incarnation) (1599–1672), Widow; Professed Religious of the Ursuline Nuns (Indre-et-Loire, France – Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": July 19, 1911 Beatified: June 22, 1980 by Pope John Paul II Canonized (equipollent): April 3, 2014 by Pope Francis[1] François de Montmorency-Laval (1623–1708), Bishop of Québec (Eure-et-Loir, France – Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": February 28, 1960 Beatified: June 22, 1980 by Pope John Paul II Canonized: April 3, 2014 by Pope Francis[1]
Blesseds André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1758–1792), Priest of the Archdiocese of Sens (Québec, Canada – Paris, France) Declared "Venerable": October 1, 1926 Beatified: October 17, 1926 by Pope Pius XI Eulalie Durocher (Marie-Rose) (1811–1849), Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Declared "Venerable": July 13, 1979 Beatified: May 23, 1982 by Pope John Paul II Marie-Léonie Paradis (Marie-Léonie) (1840–1912), Founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": January 31, 1981 Beatified: September 11, 1984 by Pope John Paul II Louis-Zéphirin Moreau (1824–1901), Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe; Cofounder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Saint-Hyacinthe (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": May 10, 1973 Beatified: May 10, 1987 by Pope John Paul II Frédéric Janssoone (1838–1916), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Nord, France – Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": March 21, 1985 Beatified: September 25, 1988 by Pope John Paul II Marie-Catherine Simon de Longpré (Marie-Catherine of Saint Augustine) (1632–1668), Professed Religious of the Augustinian Sisters of Mercy of Jesus (Canadian Federation) (Manche, France – Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": June 9, 1984 Beatified: April 23, 1989 by Pope John Paul II Dina Bélanger (Marie of Saint Cecilia of Rome) (1897–1929), Professed Religious of the Religious of Jesus and Mary (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": May 13, 1989 Beatified: March 20, 1993 by Pope John Paul II Esther Blondin (Marie–Anne) (1809–1890), Founder of the Sisters of Saint Anne (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": May 14, 1991 Beatified: April 29, 2001 by Pope John Paul II Vasyl Velychkovsky (1903–1973), Professed Religious of the Redemptorists; Eparch of the "clandestine" Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; Martyr (Ivano-Frankvisk, Ukraine – Manitoba, Canada) Declared "Venerable": April 24, 2001 Beatified: June 27, 2001 by Pope John Paul II Mykyta Budka (1877–1949), Auxiliary Eparch of Lviv of the Ukrainians; Martyr (Ternopil, Ukraine – Karaganda, Kazakhstan) Declared "Venerable": April 24, 2001 Beatified: June 27, 2001 by Pope John Paul II Émilie Tavernier-Gamelin (1800–1851), Founder of the Sisters of Providence of Montréal (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": December 23, 1993 Beatified: October 7, 2001 by Pope John Paul II Basil Moreau (1799–1873), Founder of the Sisters of Holy Cross (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": April 12, 2003 Beatified: September 16, 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI Marie-Louise-Élisabeth de Lamoignon de Molé de Champlâtreux (1763–1825), widow; founder of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Louis of Vannes (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": January 16, 1986 Beatified: November 27, 2011 by Cardinal Angelo Amato Marie-Élisabeth Turgeon (1840–1881), Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": October 9, 2013 Beatified: April 26, 2015 by Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B. Venerables Vital-Justin Grandin (1829–1902), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Bishop of Saint-Albert (Mayenne, France – Alberta, Canada) Declared "Venerable": December 15, 1966 Alfred Pampalon (1867–1896), Professed Priest of the Redemptorists (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": May 14, 1991 Élisabeth Bergeron (Mère Saint-Joseph) (1851–1936), Cofounder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Saint-Hyacinthe (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": January 12, 1996. Délia Tétreault (Marie of the Holy Spirit) (1865–1941), Founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": December 18, 1997 Jérôme Le Royer de la Dauversière (1597–1659), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Le Mans; Cofounder of the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph (Sarthe – Charente-Maritime, France) Declared "Venerable": July 6, 2007 Adolphe Châtillon (Théophanius-Léo) (1871–1929), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": April 2, 2011 Marie-Josephte Fitzbach (Marie of the Sacred Heart) (1806–1885), Widow; Founder of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Good Shepherd Sisters (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": June 28, 2012 Antoni Kowalczyk (1866–1947), Professed Religious of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Krotoszyn, Poland – Alberta, Canada) Declared "Venerable": March 27, 2013 Rosalie Cadron-Jetté (Mère of the Nativity) (1794–1864), Founder of the Misericordia Sisters (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": December 9, 2013 Marie-Anne-Marcelle Mallet (1805–1871), Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Québec (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": January 27, 2014 Joseph Staub (Marie-Clément) (1876–1936), Professed Priest of the Assumptionists; Founder of the Sisters of Saint Joan of Arc (Haut-Rhin, France – Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": April 3, 2014 Jeanne Mance (prob. 1606–1673) Layperson of the Archdiocese of Montréal (Haute-Marne, France – Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": November 7, 2014 William Gagnon (1905–1972), Professed Religious of the Hospitallers of Saint John of God Declared "Venerable": December 14, 2015 Aurélie Caouette (Catherine-Aurélie of the Precious Blood) (1833–1905), Founder of the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": December 1, 2016 Élisabeth Bruyère (1818–1876), Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa (Québec – Ontario, Canada) Declared "Venerable": April 14, 2018 Ovide Charlebois (1862–1933), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Apostolic Vicar of Keewatin; Titular Bishop of Berenice (Québec - Manitoba, Canada) Declared "Venerable": November 28, 2019
Servants of God Jeanne Le Ber (1662–1714), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Montréal (Québec, Canada) Martyrs of French Revolution: Anne Le Prince veuve le Blanc (1721–1794), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Quimper-Léon (Nova Scotia, Canada – Finistère, France) Anastasie le Blanc (1760–1794), Layperson of the Diocese of Quimper-Léon (Nova Scotia, Canada – Finistère, France) Michael Power (1804–1847), Bishop of Toronto (Nova Scotia – Ontario, Canada) Stephen Eckert (Stephen of Dublin) (1869–1923), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins (Ontario, Canada – Wisconsin, United States) Elzéar DeLamarre (1854–1925), Priest of the Diocese of Chicoutimi; Founder of the Antonian Sisters of Mary (Québec, Canada) Vénérance Morin-Rouleau (Bernarda) (1832–1929), Founder of the Sisters of Providence of Chile [now part of the Sisters of Providence of Montréal] (Québec, Canada – Santiago, Chile) Léon Pratte (1864–1930), Priest of the Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe (Québec, Canada) Gérard Raymond (1912–1932), Seminarian of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada) Louis Doumain (1920–1944), Priest of the Diocese of Viviers; Martyr (Alberta, Canada – Saalekreis, Germany) Eugène Prévost (1860–1946), Priest and Founder of the Congregation of the Sacerdotal Fraternity and of the Oblate Sisters of Bethany (Québec – Maine-et-Loire, Canada) Albert L'Heureux (Alphonse) (1894–1947), Professed Priest of the Trappists; Martyr (Québec, Canada – Hebei, China) Louis Émond (1876–1949), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada) Victor Lelièvre (1876–1956), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Ille-et-Vilaine, France – Québec, Canada) Pierre Fallaize (1887–1964), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Auxiliary Bishop of MacKenzie (Calvados, France – Northwest Territories, Canada) Georges-Philias Vanier (1888–1967), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Ottawa; Governor-General of Canada (Québec – Ottawa, Canada) Gilberte Lapierre (Marie-Claire) (1895–1979), Professed Religious of the Poor Clare Nuns (Québec, Canada) Dorian LaPlante (Flavian) (1907–1981), Professed Religious of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Québec, Canada – Chittagong, Bangladesh) Catherine de Hueck Doherty (1896–1985), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Pembroke; Founder of the Madonna House Apostolate (Nizhegorodskaya oblast’, Russia – Ontario, Canada) Pauline Archer–Vanier (1898–1991), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Ottawa (Québec, Canada – Oise, France) Colette Lamontaigne Samson (1923–1991), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada) Carmelina Tarantino (Carmelina of the Cross) (1937–1992), Professed Religious of the Passionist Sisters of Saint Paul of the Cross (Naples, Italy – Ontario, Canada) Julienne Dallaire (Julienne du Rosaire) (1911–1995), Founder of the Dominican Missionary Adorers (Québec, Canada) Emiliano Tardif [Émilien] (1928–1999), Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Founder of the Community of the Servants of the Living Christ (Québec, Canada – Córdoba, Argentina) Candidates for sainthood Nicolas Viel (d. 1625), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Recollects) (Coutances, France – Québec, Canada) Auhaitsique [Ahuntsic] (d. 1625), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada) Joseph Chiwatenhwa (1602-1640) and Marie Aonetta (d.1650?), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada)[2] Barthélemy Vimont (1594-1667), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Lisieux, France - Québec, Canada) Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie (1603-1671), Professed Religious of the Ursulines of Québec (Alençon, France – Québec, Canada) Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot (1611-1693), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Châtillon-sur-Seine, France – Québec, Canada) Claude Pelletier (Didace) (1657-1699), Professed Religious of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Recollects) (Québec, Canada)[3] Esther Wheelwright (Maria Joseph of the Infant Jesus) (1696–1780), Professed Religious of the Ursulines of Québec (Maine, USA – Québec, Canada) Frances Margaret Allen (1784–1819), Professed Religious of the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph (Vermont, USA – Québec, Canada) Esther Pariseau (Marie-Joseph of the Sacred Heart) (1823–1902), Professed Religious of the Sisters of Providence of Montréal (Québec, Canada – Washington, USA) Éléonore Potvin (Marie-Zita of Jesus) (1865-1903), Founder of the Servants of Jesus-Marie (Canada) Jean-Baptiste Rouvière (1881–1913), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Martyr (Lozères, France – Northwest Territories, Canada) Guillaume Le Roux (1885–1913), Professed Priests of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Martyr (Finistère, France – Northwest Territories, Canada) Alexis-Louis Mangin (1856-1920), Priest of the Archdiocese of Ottawa; Founder of the Servants of Jesus-Marie (Canada) Marie Bibeau (Marie-Anne de Jésus) (1865–1924), Founder of the Little Franciscans of Mary (Lower Canada, Canada – Massachusetts, USA) Marie Rose Ferron (1902-1936), Layperson of the Diocese of Providence (Canada-USA)
Emma Tétu (Marie-Domitille) (1887–1942), Professed Religious of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (Québec, Canada) Martyrs of Fengxian (Jiangsu, China):[4] Alphonse Dubé (1890–1943), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Québec, Canada) Prosper Bernard (1902–1943), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Québec, Canada) Armand Lalonde (1904–1943), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Québec, Canada) Rose Prince (1915-1949), Layperson of the Diocese of Prince George (Canada)[5][6] Léon Arcand (Didace) (1886–1952), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Québec, Canada – Shandong, China) Henri Roy (1898-1965), Professes Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Founder of the Secular Institute "Pius X" (Maine, USA - Quebec, Canada) James Arthur Mackinnon (1932–1965), Priest of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society; Martyr (Nova Scotia, Canada – Monte Plata, Dominican Republic)[7] Martyrs of Maseru, Lesotho: Almanzar Joseph Ménard (1906–1966), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Québec, Canada) Raynald Beauregard (1931–1976), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Québec, Canada) Maurice Lefebvre Beaudry (1922–1971), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Martyr (Québec, Canada – La Paz, Bolivia) Martyrs of Uganda: Jean-Paul Demers (1910–1971), Priest of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) (Québec, Canada) Gérard Perrault (1915–1971), Priest of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) (Québec, Canada) Wilfred Lépine (1923–1980), Priest of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) (Québec, Canada) Raoul Joseph Léger (1951–1981), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Moncton; Lay Missionary of the Québec Foreign Missionary Society; Martyr (New Brunswick, Canada – Guatemala City, Guatemala) Douglas William Main (John) (1926–1982), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (Olivetan Congregation) (London, United Kingdom – Québec, Canada) Claudia Murphy (Sybil) (1930-1996), Professed Religious of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (Nova Scotia, Canada – Cape Coast, Ghana) Mary Josephine Mulligan (1920–1996), Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate (Québec, Canada) Jean-Luc Hudon (Bernardin-Jean) (1936-1998), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers); Martyr (Québec, Canada – Sud-Est, Haiti) Martin John Royackers (1959-2001), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Ontario, Canada – Saint Mary, Jamaica) William Lloyd Ryan (1917–2003), Priest of the Diocese of Hamilton; Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate (Ontario – Québec, Canada) Richard Émile Joyal (1951-2013), Professed Priest of the Society of Mary (Marianists); Martyr (Manitoba, Canada – Port-au-Prince, Haiti) Martyrs of Rwanda: François Cardinal (1942–1992),professed religious, Brothers of Christian Instruction (De La Mennais Brothers) (Québec, Canada) Claude Simard (1933–1994), professed priest, Congregation of Holy Cross (Québec, Canada) Guy Pinard (1945–1997), priest of the Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa (White Fathers) (Québec, Canada)
Marie Rose Fearon kind of jumped out at me because she was such an extraordinary mystic and of course I have read about her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Rose_Ferron . Life Ferron was born in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec, as the tenth child of a large devoutly Catholic family which moved to Fall River, Massachusetts in 1906. It is said that she was six years old when she had her first vision of Jesus, as a child, carrying a cross. "He was looking at me with sadness in His eyes," she once said.[4] At the age of 13, Ferron was stricken with a mysterious paralysis and painful contraction of the muscles, forcing her to walk with crutches for several years until her twisted and clubbed feet confined her to a bed for the rest of her life. Because her muscles would sometimes painfully contract, making it very difficult to straighten once again, a flat board was placed on her narrow bed to which she was rigidly strapped. She also suffered an intestinal problem that made it difficult to digest solid food and contracted tetanus and pyorrhea.[4] The family relocated to Woonsocket, Rhode Island in 1925, where, the following year, her stigmata first appeared. By Lent 1927 the wounds began to appear regularly every Friday.[4] Ferron lived in constant pain until her death in 1936 at the age of 33. The number of mourners attending her funeral attest to her popularity in the Franco-American community.[5] Her attempts at appearing to have stigmata (including a crown of thorns) were repeatedly photographed featuring what appears to be a stylized wire thorn pattern made from irritating the skin in the corresponding pattern. There are those that have considered her the first American stigmatist.[6][7] An inquiry into the cause of Ferron's canonization was conducted by Bishop Russell McVinney of Providence, Rhode Island and ended in 1964 with the bishop deciding against further proceedings.[5]
I notice one recent from Nova Scotia? Claudia Murphy (Sybil) (1930-1996), Professed Religious of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (Nova Scotia, Canada – Cape Coast, Ghana) https://www.msolafrica.org/2017/05/...ames-of-our-sisters-who-died-a-violent-death/ In Cape Coast, Ghana, January 1996: In early January 1996, Sr. Claudia Murphy was on vacation in Cape Coast, Ghana with Patricia, a friend. On January 8, around 5 pm, they decided to go to the beach. While her companion left for a few moments, Claudia sat reading a book. A young man (drugged, mentally ill, nobody knows) accosted Claudia and gave three machete blows in back of her head; Death was almost instantaneous. His companion rushed in and is killed the man in turn. Claudia was the oldest of the ten, she was 65 years old with 34 years of profession. On the eve of her first vows she had written: “I have little to offer, but I offer my whole person, with the firm will to be all to God.” More than a simple “memento mori”, a reminder of death, we want to celebrate these life offerings, this firm will of our sisters to be all to God (and to others). That is where their life and our lives are today, because we have offered all our lives to God, and from their example we draw comfort.
Welcome to the Forum LMF. The Lord is gathering His flock; finding lost sheep, freeing slaves, healing broken hearted wounds, strengthening weaknesses and exhorting us to partake worthily in the Blessed Eucharist, given to nourish this starving world. We are together on this journey. Luke 13:34 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning the ones having been sent to her. How often I wanted to gather-together the children as a hen does her own brood under her wings, and you did not want it. God Bless
Thank you so much Josephite ~ And thank you all for the welcome ~ Sunrise Valley in the CB Highlands, in the fall ~
