Règlement de la Société de la Sainte Famille, érigée dans l'église des Canadiens à Worcester, Mass. This rules booklet was published in Montréal by the the Institution de Sourds-Muets, in 1918.
This is a Certificat d'Admission for the Association Universelle de la Ste. Famille. It was made out to Mr. Germain Leblanc and his family at Notre Dame in Worcester, Massachusetts, on March 5, 1893.
This collection consists of photographs and newspaper clippings originally placed in scrapbooks and photograph albums by Rev. Alphée Marquis. Most of the photographs were taken by Rev. Marquis; the clippings represent subjects of interest to their collector. Of note in the photograph albums are images of Father D. Surette and Mme Armand Marquis, Mount Katahdin, and a number of local people and locations. The collection also includes a number of funeral cards and photographic slides. The original photograph albums and scrapbooks have been dismantled; the clippings are not in their original order. They have been arranged by subject.
Beginning in 1889, under the leadership of their pastor, the Rev. Jean Baptiste Saint-Onge, many of the parishioners of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church, Troy's French Church, participated in an annual pilgrimage to the Shrine at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré. Located on the Saint Lawrence River, not far from Quebec City, the Basilica is credited by the Roman Catholic Church with numerous miracles of curing the ill and the disabled.
On July 27, 1886, a group of women from Troy's French church,Saint-Jean-Baptiste, formed the Sodality of the Ladies of St. Anne. In the 1930s, the Ladies assisted their pastor, the Rev. Paul Leduc, in the collection of jewelry to finance a gold jeweled crown for the statue of St. Anne. Although unconfirmed, it is believed that the crown pictured in this photo may be the gift from those devotees at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church.
