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In a letter to the Cuban prelate, dated July 25 and released September 6, the Pope recalled that the parish began as a shrine in 1647 and became a parish in 1664, a cathedral in 1674, and a minor basilica in 1874. The Pope also recalled that early this year, he canonized St. François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, whose relics are venerated in the cathedral.
Pope Francis asked Cardinal Ortega to “sweetly exhort the priests and faithful present there to follow Christ with perseverance and to venerate His Mother piously, as was the custom in these rather large regions. And at the same time, through the grace of God that arises in these places, we desire greatly the success of the new evangelization, by which the faithful may be led diligently, through true Eucharistic and Marian devotion, to a continuously greater charity and sanctity.”
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Pope recalls beginnings of Church in Canada, calls for renewed Eucharistic, Marian devotion
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