Notre-Dame du Rosaire (Cornwall, Ontario)

Marian title of Cornwall (Ontario)
Popular devotion (not officially recognized by the Church)

There is historical reference to an ancient Notre-Dame du Rosaire parish (Our Lady of the Rosary) in the Cornwall area, built to serve French-speaking faithful from the Stormont and Glengarry region, within the current archdiocese of Ottawa- Cornwall. The exact year of erection is not recorded. As a current structure, the diocese lists mainly other parishes in Cornwall (Nativity of the Blossed Virgin Mary, Blossed Sacrament), so the ancient parish of the Rosary may have been merged or closed. In order not to invent data, only the verifiable is collected.

Main data

Origin and history

There is historical reference to an ancient Notre-Dame du Rosaire parish (Our Lady of the Rosary) in the Cornwall area, built to serve French-speaking faithful from the Stormont and Glengarry region, within the current archdiocese of Ottawa- Cornwall. The exact year of erection is not recorded. As a current structure, the diocese lists mainly other parishes in Cornwall (Nativity of the Blossed Virgin Mary, Blossed Sacrament), so the ancient parish of the Rosary may have been merged or closed. In order not to invent data, only the verifiable is collected.

The image and the sanctuary

There is no description of the image or the specific temple in the accessible sources. No canonical coronation.

Sponsorship and coronation

Advocación de devoción popular; no consta reconocimiento oficial de la Iglesia como santuario. El título «du Rosaire» refleja la tradicional piedad francocanadiense centrada en el Rosario. No consta patronazgo canónico ni coronación de imagen.

Party and devotion

As an advocation of the Rosary, the feast corresponds to October 7, the memory of Our Lady of the Rosary in the Roman calendar. There is no documented liturgical program for this ancient parish of Cornwall.

Link to the Rosary

The bond is direct by the title of the advocation itself. In the Cornwall region, Marian processions of the Rosary Rally (public prayer of the Rosary) are documented in the second half of the 20th century, especially during October, in which local parishes participated. There is no canonically erected Rosary fellowship.