French Canada: Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre

"The priest visioned the whole of French-Canada as a seed-bed for God, a seminary of French parishes speaking plain old French of their Norman forefathers, continuing the battle of the Counter-Reformation." Source: from the French-Canadian novel, Two Solitudes, by Hugh MacLennan.

Quebec has the greatest concentration of Catholic pilgrimage places in North America: three significant international pilgrimage sites, eight national ones, and many other smaller ones. The basilica at Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre is shown here. This and other pilgrimage places have Outdoor Ways of the Cross, Rosary Ways, Holy Stairs, Calvary Scenes, Holy Sepulcher, or Gospel Walks.