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Local Expert: Gerald Alexis

My name is Gerald and after traveling around the world, after living in various cities in Europe, North America and the Caribbean, I made my home in Quebec City.  I am an art historian involved in contemporary art but have in recent years...

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March 31, 2008
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Our Lady of the Angles

As sprint is slowly (very) settling in, more and more it will be nice to stroll along the St. Charles River and the beautiful park along its banks.  If ever you do go there, don’t miss a visit to the Museum at the Augustine’s monastery.   Its 315 years of existence will tell you a lot about people and events of Quebec City’s history.  But more than that, you must visit the monastery’s chapel, the oldest in North America, dedicated to Our Lady of the Angels.  Landscape paintings curiously replace traditional religious images.   Painted by Mother Madeleine Maufils in 1696, they are images of Québec at it was then.  In the chapel, there is also a huge representation of the Assumption painted by in 1671 brother Luc, the first Canadian Recollect that branch of the Franciscan order in the Roman Catholic faith.  You may be interested in knowing that the Recollects seem to be having been the first to brew beer in the French colony that was to become the province of Quebec.Another unusual piece in that chapel is a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary sculpted by a prisoner and justly called Our Lady of the Prisoner.  As the story goes, Mgr de St Vallier was so impressed by the piece and by the guy’s expression of his faith that he had him released form prison.  See what a good deed can lead to.
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MOnastery ot the Augustinian Sisters
260 boulevard Langelier
(418) 529-0931
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