Our Lady of Lourdes de Vimont (Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes)

Marian Advocation of Vimont (Laval) (Quebec)
Popular devotion (not officially recognized by the Church)

The Catholic community of Vimont, in Laval, is under the title of Our Lady of Lourdes. The name indicates a direct reception of Lourdes' devotion, widely spread in Quebec from the 1858 apparitions in Massabielle. There is no unique foundational account or precise chronology of the parish or local sanctuary in the sources consulted.

Main data

Origin and history

The Catholic community of Vimont, in Laval, is under the title of Our Lady of Lourdes. The name indicates a direct reception of Lourdes' devotion, widely spread in Quebec from the 1858 apparitions in Massabielle. There is no unique foundational account or precise chronology of the parish or local sanctuary in the sources consulted.

The image and the sanctuary

It is a parish or local sanctuary dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes. There are no verifiable details about the image, any Massabielle-style grotto, or a canonical coronation of the image.

Sponsorship and coronation

The advocation corresponds to Our Lady of Lourdes. It does not contain a formal decree of broader patronage or a canonical coronation of the image.

Party and devotion

The main feast is February 11, memory of Our Lady of Lourdes. In some communities of this advocation there are novies and pilgrimages around that date, but it does not know if in Vimont there is a feast of a sanctuary other than the liturgical memory.

Link to the Rosary

There is no particular and documented link with the Rosary; yes, however, with devotion to Lourdes, in which the prayer of the Rosary is often part of the usual prayer of the faithful.