THE CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER DE BROMONT

The parish of St Francis Xavier was served by the parish priest of Granby from 1858 to 1859, the date of the nomination of the first resident parish priest and the start of the Parish Registers. The parish, which belonged to the diocese of Sherbrooke, was canonically erected on the 6th June1858.

The parish expanded when 52 families arrived to establish the future West Shefford. Ten years later a syndicate began the construction of the present church, which took place between 1889 and 1891.

On the 23rd and 24th of November 1996, two religious of Jesus and Mary went to Bromont to talk about Dina at the Saturday and Sunday Masses and a photograph of Blessed Dina Belanger is installed in the church.

EGLISE “BON PASTEUR” DE MATANE

The Church of the Good Shepherd at Matane, was built in 1978 and blessed by Mgr Gilles-Ouellet, the Archbishop of Rimouski, in the month of August 1979.

On the 12th May, 1996, Father Rosaire Dionne, Parish Priest of the parish of the Good Shepherd at Matane, blessed a stained glass window in honour of Blessed Dina Bélanger, mystic and musician, who was beatified by Pope John Paul II on the 20th March 1993.

In 2016 the church was given to the Historical and Genealogical Society of Matane. In ceding the church, the Good Shepherd Factory, expressed the hope that the museum section of the church be retained and asked the new owners to conserve the collection of valuable works of art that decorate this place of worship. The church, in which the glass window in honour of Dina is to be found, also contains 19 wooden statues and 14 glass windows, of which 17 depict the foundresses who contributed to the religious history of Quebec, as well as a symbolic 'Stations of the Cross' also in glass.