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The REPUTATION OF THE SANCTITY of Dina Bélanger became universal after her beatification.

Monday, 9 October 2017

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.


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