French Canada: Roadside Shrines

Public shrines dot the open countryside in Quebec. Note the expensive cut-stone materials, detailed religious statues, and flowers.
How do you know that this is a Roman Catholic shrine?

Answer: the central crucifix with Christ hanging on it -- also found in Roman Catholic cemeteries

Compare this Roman Catholic landscape to the one in central Minnesota.

 

Created by Ingolf Vogeler; last revised on 09 March 2005.