Late afternoon at Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal.
The first small chapel on the site on the west slope of Mount Royal was built by Saint André Bessette in 1904, and a larger church was completed in 1917. The dome of the oratory is the third-largest of its kind in the world, and the church, which attracts over 2 million visitors and pilgrims every year, is the largest in Canada.
Brother André credited the miracles attributed to him to Saint Joseph; most of these miracles had to do with healing of various infirmities, and in the basilica is displayed a massive wall covered in crutches belonging to those who came to be healed. Brother André was beatified in 1982, and canonized in 2010.
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