Saint Andre Bessette (1937)

Brother Andre was a simple lay brother of the Congregation of the Holy Cross at Montreal in Quebec. He had a consuming love for Saint Joseph and spent his life in spreading devotion to him. He is responsible for the famed Oratory of Saint Joseph at Montreal. Through Brother Andre’s prayers to Saint Joseph countless cures took place even during his lifetime. Nearly a million people came to pay him their last respects when he died on January 6, 1937, at the age of ninety-one.

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