SHRINE DINA BELANGER IN THE PARISH OF ST ROCH, QUEBEC,CANADA

Saint Roch located on the lower part of the city of Quebec, before it was, par excellence, the French speaking and popular neighborhood is now the more ancient working suburb of the city and the living witness of four centuries of history of the city of Quebec.

In this neighborhood, where the Belanger family lived, is where on April 30, 1897 Blessed Dina Bélanger was born at number 168 of Street Notre Dame des Anges, receiving the same day Baptism in the de Saint Roch, which was erected in 1829.  The present Church inaugurated in 1920 and reconstructed on the same place as the first one built in 1811, is the largest Church of Quebec and one of the more beautiful temples of the city.

On September 4, 1993, first feast of Dina Bélanger as “Blessed”, with the assistance of more than two-thousand five hundred persons, Mgr. Clement Fecteau, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Quebec, celebrated the solemn Mass, concelebrated by about twenty priests among which Father Pierre-André Fournier, the Parish priest of Saint Roch and Father Marcel Dion, Parish priest of Notre-Dame-de-Jacques-Cartier, the Parish of Dina.

At the moment of the “Gloria” there was the unveiling of the maxi-photo which served in the Basilica of St. Peter of Rome, for the beatification of Dina Bélanger by Pope John Paul II and that now is exposed in this Church in the Shrine Dina Belanger situated on the left side of the central nave.

On the square of this Church, which is the center of the life of the neighborhood and where numerous events take place throughout the whole year, before the celebration there was half an hour of animation by 20 musicians in honor of Dina.

At present, this Shrine in the heart of old Quebec, is visited by numerous persons, who sure of the protection of their ancient citizen, Blessed Dina Belanger, entrust to her their projects and needs.