The picturesque StLawrence . Twenty miles from Quebec on this north shorewe arrive at St. Anne de Beaupre where overone hundred and fifty thousand pilgrims resortannually to pay their devotions at this shrineof world-wide fame. The shrine is the chiefsupport of the railway, which has been solemnlyconsecrated and blessed by the cardinal, as haveeven the cars in which the pilgrims travel. The village is rather a garish looking placewith its big church and its chapels and otherbuildings of a religious nature, its huddle ofhotels and souvenir shops. It has a strikingsetting in the landscape ; for
The picturesque StLawrence . Twenty miles from Quebec on this north shorewe arrive at St. Anne de Beaupre where overone hundred and fifty thousand pilgrims resortannually to pay their devotions at this shrineof world-wide fame. The shrine is the chiefsupport of the railway, which has been solemnlyconsecrated and blessed by the cardinal, as haveeven the cars in which the pilgrims travel. The village is rather a garish looking placewith its big church and its chapels and otherbuildings of a religious nature, its huddle ofhotels and souvenir shops. It has a strikingsetting in the landscape ; for immediately behindis an abrupt and lofty hill, and to the east is asuccession of wild mountain promontories reach-ing out into the river. But the river shore oppo-site the town is a gently inclined beach, reed-grown in its higher portion, and muddy andstone-strewn where the tide exposes it beyond. St. Anne, in whose honor the great churchjust back from the waterside was built, was themother of the Virgin Mary. When she died. T3 From Cape Diamond to the Gulf 209 she was buried in Jerusalem. Later the infidelsoverran the Holy Land pillaging and destroying,and they dragged the coffin of St. Anne forthfrom its tomb, but could neither open nor burnit. So they threw it into the sea, and it floatedaway to the town of Apt in France on the shoreof the Mediterranean. There it lay for a longtime buried in the sand. One day some fisher-men of Apt caught in their net an enormousfish. They dragged it to the land, and beforethey succeeded in killing it, the fish in itsstruggling made a deep hole in the sand andlaid bare the coffin of St. Anne. The fishermentried to open the coffin, but did not succeed anybetter than had the infidels in the Holy informed the bishop, Aurelius, of thisstrange phenomenon, and he had the coffinwalled into a crypt of the church. In the courseof time St. Anne became the patroness of Brit-tany, and presently it began to be rumored thatat Auray where a shrin
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