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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.
The Feast of Saint John by French artist Jules Breton (1875) In France, the Fête de la Saint-Jean (feast of St John) is traditionally celebrated with bonfires (le feu de Saint-Jean), and is a Catholic festivity in celebration of Saint John the Baptist. It takes place on 24 June, on Midsummer day (St John's Day).
Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec, a former municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec that is now part of Mont-Joli, Quebec Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Restigouche, New Brunswick , Canada Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste), institution in Quebec dedicated to protection of francophone interests
La Saint-Jean-Baptiste, or La St-Jean, honours French Canada's patron saint, John the Baptist. On this day, the song " Gens du pays ", by Gilles Vigneault , is often heard. The song À la claire fontaine [ 349 ] was the anthem of the New France , Patriots and French Canadian , then replaced by O Canada , but "Gens du pays" is preferred by many ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Jean–Longueuil (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis–Longoliensis) is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Montréal in (mostly francophone) Québec, southeastern Canada. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-l’Évangéliste dedicated to John the Evangelist, in Saint-Jean-sur ...
L'Anse-Saint-Jean (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃s sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃]), French for "The Cove of Saint John" is a municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its population was 1,301 in the Canada 2021 Census .
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint John, New Brunswick (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis Canadensis) (erected 30 September 1842, as the Diocese of Saint John in America) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Moncton. It was renamed on 15 November 1924.
The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist [1] (French: Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Nicolet) [2] also called Nicolet Cathedral [3] is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church and seat of the bishop of the Diocese of Nicolet. [4] It is located in the city of the same name in the province of Quebec, in eastern Canada.