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Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (French: Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, la Saint-Jean, Fête nationale du Québec), also known in English as St John the Baptist Day, is a holiday celebrated on June 24 in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Dina Bélanger (Marie of Saint Cecilia of Rome) (1897–1929), Professed Religious of the Religious of Jesus and Mary (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": May 13, 1989; Beatified: March 20, 1993 by Pope John Paul II; Esther Blondin (Marie–Anne) (1809–1890), Founder of the Sisters of Saint Anne (Québec, Canada) Declared "Venerable": May ...
"St. Jean Baptiste" is French for John the Baptist.It is used in the names of some churches and places, and two other saints have names derived from him. St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, the patron saint of teachers.
The fleur-de-lis, one of Quebec's most common symbols, is an ancient symbol of the French monarchy and was first shown in Quebec on the shores of Gaspésie in 1534 when Jacques Cartier arrived in Quebec for the first time. Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the patron saint of Canadiens, is honoured every 24 June during Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day.
Lacroix is a member of the Quebec-based Saint Pope Pius X Secular Institute. Lacroix was born in Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset, Quebec , on July 27, 1957, the eldest son in a family of seven children. At the age of 8, his family settled in Manchester , largest city of New Hampshire (in the U.S.), where he attended the parochial elementary school of ...
André Bessette, C.S.C. (born Alfred; 9 August 1845 – 6 January 1937), commonly known as Brother André (French: Frère André) and since his canonization as Saint André of Montreal, was a lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a significant figure of the Catholic Church among French-Canadians.
Their patron saint is Saint Ursula. The Viceroyalty of New France was the area colonized by France in North America starting with the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534. The French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Québec in 1608 among the Algonquin people as the administrative seat for New France ...
Patron saint Notes Asia: Francis Xavier [1] John the Evangelist is the patron saint of Asia Minor, but not the entire continent. [2] [3] Africa: Moses the Black Our Lady of Africa: Cyprian is patron saint of Africa, the Roman province (Tunisia), not the entire continent. [4] The Americas: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe) [5] [6]