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Show PILGRIMAGES TO FAMOUS SHRINES OF OLD QUEBEC Quebec's famous shrines attracted throngs of pilgrims mid tourists from Canada and the United States as the church assumed a leading part in the colorful celebration commemorating commem-orating the quadricentennial of the discovery of Canada by Jacques Car-tier. Car-tier. The annual feast of St. Anne brought many pilgrimages to the celebrated shrine of St. Anne de Beau pre, located twenty-one miles north of Quebec on the St. Lawrence river. Devotion" at this shrine is not confined to feast days and religious celebrations, however. Large numbers num-bers of visitors kneel here daily, more than 1,000,000 pilgrims annually visiting vis-iting the shrine. According to tradition, St. Anne's dates from lG.'S, when the first church was established by Breton sailors In thankfulness for their rescue res-cue from a storm on the St. Lawrence. Law-rence. Discarded crutches, canes and braces are piled here by the pilgrims, who are said to have experienced miraculous cures. Shnrin,? the Interest of pilgrims are Quebec's oilier noted shrines, St. Joseph's Oratory In Montreal, which has become famous within t lie last four decades through the works of Brother Andre, and the National Shrine of the Blessed Virgin nt Cnp-de-la-Madeleine, near Trois Rivieres. Historical students as well as the religious visit the ancient sanctuary of Tres Sainte Uosaire at Cnp-do-la-Madeleine. Built In 1714, it Is one of Quebec's most cherished antiquities. |