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Their marriage was blessed on the same day; this was the first Catholic wedding in Huronia. Joseph became the first lay administrator in the Catholic Church in Canada, in 1639. He helped the Jesuits translate hymns and prayers from French into Huron. He was impressed with the teachings of Saint Ignatius and the Spiritual Exercises.
The history of the Catholic Church in Canada extends back to the arrival of the earliest European explorers. A French priest accompanied the explorer Jacques Cartier, performing the first ever recorded Holy Mass on Canadian soil on July 7, 1534, on the shores of the Gaspé Peninsula.
Declaring that she offered her life for the establishment of the Catholic faith in Canada, this same pope, on 23 April 1989, beatified her. [2] Catherine's feast day is celebrated in Quebec on 8 May. Her remains are preserved for veneration at the Centre Catherine-de-Saint-Augustin, adjacent to the Hôtel-Dieu. [3]
The document describes the position of the Catholic Church on the meaning and role of marriage and the family, and outlines challenges towards realizing that ideal. It refers to marriage as "one of the most precious and most urgent tasks of Christian couples in our time", [1] and as "the foundation of the wider community of the family, since the very institution of marriage and conjugal love ...
Montréal, Québec, Canada 5 March 1967 Ottawa, Canada Servant of God Pauline Archer-Vanier: 17 March 1902 Auzits, Aveyron, France 23 March 1991 Trosly-Breuil, Oise, France Archdiocese of Ottawa [27] [28] [29] Servant of God Ulisse Amendolagine 14 May 1893 Salerno, Italy 30 May 1969 Rome, Italy Servant of God Lelia Cossidente Amendolagine 4 May ...
21 St Thomas the Apostle. 25 The Nativity of our Lord: Christmas Day. 26 St Stephen the Martyr. 27 St John the Apostle and Evangelist. 28 The Innocents. 29 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1170. 30 John Wycliffe of Oxford, Scholar, Translator of the Scriptures into English, 1384. 31 John West, Missionary, Red River, Canada, 1845.
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