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Identifier: montrealquebecot00gran (find matches)
Title: Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa, three interesting cities in Canada
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
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Publisher: (Montreal) General Passenger Dept., Grand Trunk Railway System
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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to a great height; left by the cured. Here and there through-out the place you will see a crutch or two stuck in. There was an old pipeon the very pedestal of Ste. Anne during the solemnities, perhaps a me-morial of a cure of the tobacco habit, perhaps a dearly given up votiveoffering. The mysterious statue of La Bonne Ste. Anne stands on the tall onyxpillar in front of the altar rail. It is colored like life, neither ugly norexquisite, but pretty. Behind it spreads a gilt sun—a glory—fine andshining. On Annes head is a high gold crown, presented, as well as thatupon the head of the little Virgin in her arms, by Leo XIII., in 1887. There were always some praying on the pavement before the statue,crippled or deformed or feeble; I saw none carried in helpless. They werenot ragged, though some very poorly clad, and some were refined in appear-ance. The kneelers kissed a reliquary containing a bone of the hand ofSte. Anne. This was a glass-covered receptacle surrounded with masses of
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The Basilica, Ste. Anne de Beaupre. 32 GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM. jewels, like a magnificent great brooch. A priest freely approved of ourpassing with a throng of worshippers and talcing a look at it. The ailments of some children were pointed out to a priest and herobbed a reliquary upon the spot. The plants arching the altar were a niarvelously compact mass of bloom,SO that I was quite ready to believe that they were the result of the veryhighest Belgic art. 1 found myself at one time in the midst of a crowd who had gatheredaround a high pulpit to have their sacred souvenirs blessed, rosaries, scapu-lars, crucifixes, bottles of water from the holy spring, images of Ste. Anne.They were explained to, in English and in French, to hold them up; sothey gathered them in matter of fact manner from pockets and purses, andthe priest blessed them. The organ is of the finest, as was also the singing, especially the solos oftwo powerful male voices. They filled the great building. The magnific

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