. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . o distant Brittany. In child-hood and in youth they had been taught to have recourse tothe beloved patroness of their chere Bretagne. Never hadSt. Anne d Auray failed to hear a simple and heartfeltprayer. They registered a vow : if the good saint broughtthem once more to land, there where their feet touched theywould build her a shrine. A morning came blue and cloud-less. These brave men were ashore and where ? Theylooked about them. To the northward rose the Laurentianhills, to the southward the wide-rolling St. Lawren
. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . o distant Brittany. In child-hood and in youth they had been taught to have recourse tothe beloved patroness of their chere Bretagne. Never hadSt. Anne d Auray failed to hear a simple and heartfeltprayer. They registered a vow : if the good saint broughtthem once more to land, there where their feet touched theywould build her a shrine. A morning came blue and cloud-less. These brave men were ashore and where ? Theylooked about them. To the northward rose the Laurentianhills, to the southward the wide-rolling St. Lawrence, to theeastward a little stream, now the St. Anne, dividing the set-tlement from the neighbouring parish of St. Joachim. Insuch surroundings they built a simple wooden chapel andlaid the foundation of a shrine now famous throughoutAmerica. The years went on ; these hardy voyageurs passed on theirway and were heard of no more in the village they hadfounded. But habitations soon grew up, and the settlement• Reprinted by permission of the Editor of the Catholic < <z < ucc C^ a,< ST. ANNE DE BEAUPRE QUEBEC 193 of Petit-Cap began to be known by the little temple whichstood in its very heart. Meanwhile in the passing years,the springtime floods and the winter storms, and even thehand of time itself, began to tell upon the sturdy woodenframe of the good saints shrine. The project of rebuild-ing it was first seriously entertained somewhere about prosperous farmer of the village, named Etienne Lessard,made a generous donation of land sufficient for the erectionof a church, provided only that the work was begun atonce. A discussion now arose as to the propriety ofchanging the site ; but the matter was finally decided andM. Vignal, a priest from Quebec, went down to Petit-Capto bless the foundations. He was accompanied by M. dAillebout, Governor of New France, who went thither ex-pressly to lay the corner-stone. This second church, which remained in use til
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