Anecdotes about the Virgin Mary
The piglet and the rosary
At the end of the 19th century, the small chapel of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, by the river San Lorenzo (Trois-Rivières, Quebec), he went through low hours. His parish priest, the Father Luc DésiletsHe was eager to revive the faith of the place.
It tells the tradition of the sanctuary that one day, when he entered the church, the priest met a scene as curious as it was revealing: A pig had come in and was chewing a rosary. that someone had dropped to the ground.
Since then, the priest has given himself up to promote the prayer of the Rosary among their parishioners. That delivery was the seed of what today is the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Cape (Notre-Dame-du-Cap), the largest Marian shrine in Canada and the national house of the Rosary.
It is transmitted as Pious tradition of the sanctuary itself; the documented thing is that the devotional renewal of the place started with Father Désilets from 1867.
A flower for the Virgin
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