Saint Anne’s stain glass windows were purchased in 1908 from N.T. Lyon of Toronto.  The stain glass window illustrating Our Lady’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth has undergone repairs and restoration. Due to water infiltration over the course of the years, the wooden casement of the window on the East side of the nave suffered rot and required attention. Northern Art Glass of Ottawa was entrusted with the project which included the cleaning, re-leading and replacement of missing glass pieces where necessary as well as the provision of adequate ventilation when the window was returned to its place.  This was something of a test run for similar work which will need to be carried out on a number of other windows in the church.   Donations are welcome toward their eventual restoration !

Note to parents:

If you would like a copy of all the pictures taken (over 400), please bring a blank memory stick or DVD disk to Mass next Sunday.  I will bring them back a week later

Footage from the procession in honour of St. Anne, Sunday July 26th.

The installation of the magnificent Limoges enameled Stations of the Cross gifted to Saint Clement Parish by a Québec City church has been completed.

The cost of preparing the walls and hanging the Via Crucis was budgeted at $7,000, an amount almost immediately met earlier this month by the very generous response of St. Clement parishioners.

Visually stunning, the Limoges Via Crucis the parish will long be proud of replaces the plaster casts formerly in place which had been substantially altered and painted over during the 1967 renovations carried out to the church’s interior.

Dating from 1890, the Limoges Stations were installed in a Quebec City chapel which later became the church of Notre-Dame-de-Jacques-Cartier.  A recent reorganization of Québec City parishes resulted in the church’s closure in 2012.

For more information on the Limoges Via Crucis, please read the article The Limoges Via Crucis – A work of art for St. Anne by René Villeneuve with photos by Jean-Claude Grant.