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“May the example of Brother Andre inspire Canadian Christian life.” Pope Benedict was accompanied by five cardinals, 10 archbishops, 13 bishops and 20 [...]

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Five other people are to be canonised, among them Brother Andre, a Canadian monk credited with healing powers. After excommunicating Mary MacKillop in 1871, [...]

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Quebec's flag was also out in force in St Peter's Square in support of Brother Andre Bessette, a Canadian brother who legend says healed thousands of sick [...]

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On this much later occasion, however, something seized him; a keen curiosity about the life and work of Brother André, a humble servant whose unflagging [...]

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A special collection in blessed Brother Andre Bessette's honor was taken up during the Notre Dame-Western Michigan game. The money collected will be sent to [...]

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The mood in St. Peter's Square was anything but solemn in the hours before Pope Benedict XVI arrived to canonize Canada's Brother André Bessette and five [...]

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A faithful holds portraits of Canadian Brother Andre Bessette, during a Canonization Mass led by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, [...]

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To mark the occasion, St. Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal – the massive basilica in Montreal built on the grounds where Brother André's first chapel [...]

14 Oct 2010 5000 Canadians are making the pilgrimage to Rome to watch Brother André's elevation to sainthood on Sunday. It's expected to be one of the [...]

14 Oct 2010 5000 Canadians are making the pilgrimage to Rome to watch Brother André's elevation to sainthood on Sunday. It's expected to be one of the [...]

17 Oct 2010 Brother André, the monk who founded Montreal's St. Joseph's Oratory, has been officially recognized as a Roman Catholic saint in a ceremony [...]

17 Oct 2010 Brother André, the monk who founded Montreal's St. Joseph's Oratory, has been officially recognized as a Roman Catholic saint in a ceremony [...]

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Now that Pope Benedict XVI formally canonized St. André Bessette, or St. Brother André (a more intimate title approved for him for local use), the celebrations can officially begin. In fact, they are already underway. [...]

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To the woman whom Brother André Bessette felt was inappropriately dressed as she was wearing a dress without sleeves he is reported to suggested that she rub her arms with a medal of St. Joseph until her sleeves grew back. [...]

Brother André, né Alfred Bessette, faith healer, religious counsellor (b at St-Grégoire-d'Iberville, Canada East 9 Aug 1845; d at Montréal 6 Jan 1937). Although he was [...]

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Brother André, the monk who founded Montreal's St. Joseph's Oratory, has been officially recognized as a Roman Catholic saint in a ceremony at the Vatican. [...]

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I learned of the life of a humble man named Bl. Brother André while attending Holy Cross College. He lived a very humble life as a brother in Montreal and while serving the congregation in different menial roles. [...]

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The adjacent 1948 Votive Chapel and tomb of Brother André contained candles and crutches of those healed by Brother André. Our occupational therapist friend observed that apparently all the people healed seemed to have used the same [...]

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John I. Jenkins will be joined by other Notre Dame officials at the Oct. 17 canonization of Blessed Brother Andre Bessette. The South Bend Tribune reports [...]

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Brother Andre of Mount Royal as he came to be known, respected and loved worldwide, showed all of us, through his astonishing yet simple and ordinary life what it really means that there is nothing impossible to God and those who put [...]

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If one were to ask any Canadian for the name of the person who built this magnificent House of God, he would be told, “Brother André.” Yet, this little lay brother's name does not appear on any of the official records of the building of [...]

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Brother André is part of Montreal life. Whether simple or Holy Brother that does not really change his situation. A simple man who believed above all the values of effort and work. Bernard Bujold (LeStudio1.com) did not go to Rome for [...]

Quebec's flag was also out in force in St. Peter's Square in support of Brother Andre Bessette, a Canadian brother who legend says healed thousands of sick who prayed with him at his Montreal oratory. Born in 1845, Brother Andre was [...]

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He was given the name Brother André, and put at the position of doorman. He was known to say, “When I entered the community, my superiors showed me the door, and I remained there forty years without leaving.” Brother André was always [...]