Our Lady of the Cape

Marian title of Trois-Rivières (Quebec)
Popular devotion (not officially recognized by the Church)

La advocación de Our Lady of the Cape is linked to the sanctuary of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, en Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canadáwhere local tradition places a providential development of Marian devotion since the 17th century and, more decisively, since the 19th century. The sanctuary is documented in the place from 1694and the Marian image was donated to the sanctuary in 1854 por Zepherin DorvalHe has since been associated with the popular devotion of the place.

Main data

Origin and history

La advocación de Our Lady of the Cape is linked to the sanctuary of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, en Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canadáwhere local tradition places a providential development of Marian devotion since the 17th century and, more decisively, since the 19th century. The sanctuary is documented in the place from 1694and the Marian image was donated to the sanctuary in 1854 por Zepherin DorvalHe has since been associated with the popular devotion of the place.

La devotional tradition attributes to the sanctuary the miracle of the call “puente de hielo” de 1879when, according to the pious account, a step would have been formed on the San Lorenzo River to allow the transport of stone in order to rebuild or strengthen the church. Along with that episode, popular piety also reports the "eye opening" of the Marian statue; however, in the sources provided here these facts appear as part of the tradition of the sanctuary and not as fully documented historiographic data.

The image and the sanctuary

The venerated image in Notre-Dame-du-Cap is described as a representation of the Immaculate Conception, con el heart located at the top of the iconography; the source consulted does not specify here the material of the statue, so that data no consta.

The sanctuary is officially known as Santuario de Notre-Dame-du-Cap o Our Lady of the Cape, en Cap-de-la-Madeleine (Trois-Rivières, Quebec). Es el Marian National Sanctuary of Canada and one of the main Marian pilgrimage centres in the country; the source consulted also presents it as the most important Marian sanctuary in Canada and the most visited.

Sponsorship and coronation

The security-based patronage is in scope Canadian national, by its condition of Marian National Sanctuary of Canada. In the sources provided no consta an officially documented city, municipality or diocese patronage in the terms requested.

Canon coronation: does not contain a documented canonical coronation in the sources provided.

Party and devotion

The main party is pointed out in Augustbut the exact date no consta in the sources provided. The devotion is expressed above all in the form of pilgrimages to the shrine of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, which is presented as the most visited Marian center in the country.

Among the most well-known devotional features are the memory of “puente de hielo” of 1879 and the veneration of the Marian image associated with the conversion, trust and intercession of Mary in the history of the sanctuary. The sources consulted here do not provide specific figures of inflow, so that data no consta.

Link to the Rosary

La advocación de Our Lady of the Cape is closely linked to the spirituality of Rosary: the consulted source itself identifies this place as the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary and presents it as the most important Marian center in Canada. Therefore, the Rosary does not appear as an accessory element, but as one of the main expressions of its devotion.

In general Marian key, this link recalls that the Rosary contemplates the mysteries of Christ with the look of Mary; therefore, in sanctuaries such as Notre-Dame-du@-@ Cap, the prayer of the Rosary naturally accompanies the pilgrimage, the supplication and the thanksgiving of the faithful.