Museum
Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel
400 Rue Saint-Paul E, Montréal, QC H2Y 1H4
Stone chapel rebuilt after fire, home to a wooden Virgin statue stolen and lost for over a century.
This guide to Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel in Montreal opens with a small wooden statue of the Virgin and Child that vanished from here in 1831 and stayed missing for thirteen years. You'll hear how she first became venerated after a 1754 fire tore through the original stone chapel and left her standing untouched in the ashes, and how thieves later made off with both her and the jewel-studded reliquary that held her. Sailors still hang model ships from the ceiling above, in thanks for safe passage.
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