The history of the
Catholic Church in Canada
french: Église catholique au Canada
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extends back to the arrival of the earliest European explorers. A French priest accompanied the explorer
Jacques Cartier, performing the first ever recorded Holy Mass on Canadian soil on July 7, 1534, on the shores of the
Gaspé Peninsula. It was followed by deliberate conversion of the
First Nations
First Nations or first peoples may refer to:
* Indigenous peoples, for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area.
Indigenous groups
*First Nations is commonly used to describe some Indigenous groups including:
**First Natio ...
into the fold of Catholicism. Soon after, more and more religious congregations set foot in Canada especially among French-speaking present-day Quebec.
In this long history of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada, a number of deceased persons of the Church have had their life and work declared worthy of achieving one of the four stages of
canonization in the Catholic Church:
Servants of God
"Servant of God" is a title used in the Catholic Church to indicate that an individual is on the first step toward possible canonization as a saint.
Terminology
The expression "servant of God" appears nine times in the Bible, the first five in ...
;
Venerable
The Venerable (''venerabilis'' in Latin) is a style, a title, or an epithet which is used in some Western Christian churches, or it is a translation of similar terms for clerics in Eastern Orthodoxy and monastics in Buddhism.
Christianity
Cat ...
;
Beatification
Beatification (from Latin ''beatus'', "blessed" and ''facere'', "to make”) is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their nam ...
(Blessed); and, for some, full recognition as a
Saint.
''Fondateurs''
The list of Canadian Roman Catholic Saints (St.), Blesseds (Bl.) and Venerables (Ven.) includes six individuals called the ''Fondateurs'', or Founders. These people are particularly venerated for establishing the Church in Canada. Generally, these are: St.
Marguerite Bourgeoys
Marguerite Bourgeoys (17 April 162012 January 1700), was a French nun and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal in the colony of New France, now part of Québec, Canada. Born in Troyes, she became part of a sodality, ministering ...
, St.
Marguerite d'Youville, St.
François de Laval
Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, commonly referred to as François de Laval (30 April 1623 – 6 May 1708), was a French prelate of the Catholic Church. Consecrated a bishop in 1658, he led the Apostolic Vicariate of New France from 1658 to ...
, St.
Marie de l'Incarnation
Marie of the Incarnation (28 October 1599 – 30 April 1672) was an Ursuline nun of the French order. As part of a group of nuns sent to New France to establish the Ursuline Order, Marie was crucial in the spread of Catholicism in New France. S ...
, Bl.
Catherine de Saint-Augustin and Ven.
Jeanne Mance
Jeanne Mance (November 12, 1606 – June 18, 1673) was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hospit ...
. Sometimes, Ven.
Jérôme Le Royer de la Dauversière Jerome (c.347–420) was a priest, confessor, theologian and historian from Dalmatia.
Jerome may also refer to:
People Given name
* Jerome (given name), a masculine name of Greek origin, with a list of people so named
* Saint Jerome (disambiguat ...
is also included.
Saints
* Martyrs of North America:
**
Jean de Brébeuf
Jean de Brébeuf () (25 March 1593 16 March 1649) was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Huron (Wyandot people) for the rest of his life, except for a few years in Franc ...
(1593–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Manche, France – Ontario, Canada)
**
Noël Chabanel
Noël Chabanel (February 2, 1613 – December 8, 1649) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the Canadian Martyrs.
Biography
Chabanel entered the Jesuit novitiate at Toulouse at the age of seventeen, and was ...
(1613–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Haute-Loire, France – Ontario, Canada)
**
Antoine Daniel (1601–1648), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Seine-Maritime, France – Ontario, Canada)
**
Charles Garnier (1605–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Paris, France – Ontario, Canada)
**
Isaac Jogues
Isaac Jogues, S.J. (10 January 1607 – 18 October 1646) was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the first European to name Lake George, call ...
(1602–1646), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Orléanais, France – New York, United States)
**
Gabriel Lallemant
Gabriel Lalemant (3 October 1610 – 17 March 1649) was a French Jesuit missionary in New France beginning in 1646. Caught up in warfare between the Huron and nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, he was killed in St. Ignace by Mohawk warriors ...
(1610–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Paris, France – Ontario, Canada)
**
René Goupil
René Goupil, S.J. (15 May 1608 – 29 September 1642), was a French Jesuit lay missionary (in French "donné", "given" or "one who offers himself") who became a lay brother of the Society of Jesus shortly before his death. He was the first of ...
(1607–1642), Professed Religious of the Jesuits (Maine-et-Loire, France – New York, United States)
**
Jean de Lalande
Jean de Lalande, SJ (died October 19, 1646) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and one of the eight North American Martyrs. He was killed at the Mohawk village of Ossernenon after being captured by warriors.
Life
Jean de ...
(1620–1646), Professed Religious of the Jesuits (Seine-Maritime, France – New York, United States)
*** Beatified: June 21, 1925 by
Pope Pius XI
*** Canonized: June 29, 1930 by
Pope Pius XI
*
Marguerite Bourgeoys
Marguerite Bourgeoys (17 April 162012 January 1700), was a French nun and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal in the colony of New France, now part of Québec, Canada. Born in Troyes, she became part of a sodality, ministering ...
(1620–1700), Founder of the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame (Aube, France – Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": June 19, 1910
** Beatified: November 12, 1950 by
Pope Pius XII
** Canonized: October 31, 1982 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Marie-Marguerite d'Youville née Dufrost de Lajemmerais (1701–1771), Widow; Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Montréal (Gray Sisters) (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": March 3, 1955
** Beatified: May 3, 1959 by
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 19 ...
** Canonized: December 9, 1990 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Alfred Bessette (André) (1845–1937), Professed Religious of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": June 12, 1978
** Beatified: May 23, 1982 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
** Canonized: October 17, 2010 by
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the soverei ...
*
Kateri Tekakwitha
Kateri Tekakwitha ( in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Catholic saint and virgin who was an Algonquin–Mohawk. Born in the Mohawk village of ...
(c. 1656–1680), Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Montréal (New York, United States – Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": January 3, 1943
** Beatified: June 22, 1980 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
** Canonized: October 21, 2012 by
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the soverei ...
*
Marie Guyart Martin (Marie of the Incarnation) (1599–1672), Widow; Professed Religious of the Ursuline Nuns (Indre-et-Loire, France – Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": July 19, 1911
** Beatified: June 22, 1980 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
** Canonized (equipollent): April 3, 2014 by
Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...
*
François de Montmorency-Laval
François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis.
People with the given name
* Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters"
* Francis II of France, Kin ...
(1623–1708), Bishop of Québec (Eure-et-Loir, France – Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": February 28, 1960
** Beatified: June 22, 1980 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
** Canonized: April 3, 2014 by
Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...
Blesseds
*
André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1758–1792), Priest of the Archdiocese of Sens (Québec, Canada – Paris, France)
** Declared "Venerable": October 1, 1926
** Beatified: October 17, 1926 by
Pope Pius XI
*
Eulalie Durocher (Marie-Rose) (1811–1849), Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
** Declared "Venerable": July 13, 1979
** Beatified: May 23, 1982 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Marie-Léonie Paradis (Marie-Léonie) (1840–1912), Founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": January 31, 1981
** Beatified: September 11, 1984 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau (1824–1901), Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe; Cofounder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Saint-Hyacinthe (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": May 10, 1973
** Beatified: May 10, 1987 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Frédéric Janssoone
Frédéric Janssoone, O.F.M., (also known as the Blessed Frédéric of Ghyvelde or Frédéric of Saint-Yves) (19 November 1838, Ghyvelde, France — 4 August 1916, Montreal, Canada) was a French-born Franciscan friar and Catholic priest who worke ...
(1838–1916), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Nord, France – Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": March 21, 1985
** Beatified: September 25, 1988 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Marie-Catherine Simon de Longpré (Marie-Catherine of Saint Augustine) (1632–1668), Professed Religious of the Augustinian Sisters of Mercy of Jesus (Canadian Federation) (Manche, France – Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": June 9, 1984
** Beatified: April 23, 1989 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Dina Bélanger (Marie of Saint Cecilia of Rome) (1897–1929), Professed Religious of the Religious of Jesus and Mary (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": May 13, 1989
** Beatified: March 20, 1993 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Esther Blondin (Marie–Anne) (1809–1890), Founder of the Sisters of Saint Anne (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": May 14, 1991
** Beatified: April 29, 2001 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Vasyl Velychkovsky (1903–1973), Professed Religious of the Redemptorists; Eparch of the "clandestine" Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; Martyr (Ivano-Frankvisk, Ukraine – Manitoba, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": April 24, 2001
** Beatified: June 27, 2001 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Mykyta Budka (1877–1949), Auxiliary Eparch of Lviv of the Ukrainians; Martyr (Ternopil, Ukraine – Karaganda, Kazakhstan)
** Declared "Venerable": April 24, 2001
** Beatified: June 27, 2001 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Émilie Tavernier-Gamelin (1800–1851), Founder of the
Sisters of Providence of Montréal (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": December 23, 1993
** Beatified: October 7, 2001 by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
*
Marie-Élisabeth Turgeon (1840–1881), Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": October 9, 2013
** Beatified: April 26, 2015 by Cardinal
Angelo Amato
Angelo Amato, S.D.B. (born 8 June 1938) is an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints between 2008 and 2018. He served as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of ...
, S.D.B.
Venerables
*
Vital-Justin Grandin
Vital-Justin Grandin (8 February 1829 – 3 June 1902) was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop known as a key architect of the Canadian Indian residential school system, which has been labeled an instrument of cultural genocide. In June 202 ...
(1829–1902), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Bishop of Saint-Albert (Mayenne, France – Alberta, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": December 15, 1966
*
Alfred Pampalon (1867–1896), Professed Priest of the Redemptorists (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": May 14, 1991
*
Élisabeth Bergeron
Élisabeth Bergeron, in religion Sister Saint-Joseph, (May 25, 1851 – April 29, 1936) was a Canadian religious servant who was a founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Saint-Hyacinthe in 1877. She was its Mother Superior for the first two year ...
(Mère Saint-Joseph) (1851–1936), Cofounder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Saint-Hyacinthe (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": January 12, 1996.
*
Délia Tétreault (Marie of the Holy Spirit) (1865–1941), Founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": December 18, 1997
*
Jérôme Le Royer de la Dauversière Jerome (c.347–420) was a priest, confessor, theologian and historian from Dalmatia.
Jerome may also refer to:
People Given name
* Jerome (given name), a masculine name of Greek origin, with a list of people so named
* Saint Jerome (disambiguat ...
(1597–1659), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Le Mans; Cofounder of the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph (Sarthe – Charente-Maritime, France)
** Declared "Venerable": July 6, 2007
* Adolphe Châtillon (Théophanius-Léo) (1871–1929), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": April 2, 2011
*
Marie-Josephte Fitzbach (Marie of the Sacred Heart) (1806–1885), Widow; Founder of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Good Shepherd Sisters (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": June 28, 2012
* Antoni Kowalczyk (1866–1947), Professed Religious of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Krotoszyn, Poland – Alberta, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": March 27, 2013
*
Rosalie Cadron-Jetté (Mère of the Nativity) (1794–1864), Founder of the Misericordia Sisters (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": December 9, 2013
*
Marie-Anne-Marcelle Mallet
Marie-Anne-Marcelle Mallet (March 26, 1805 – April 9, 1871) was a Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Sisters of Charity of Quebec. Her surname also appears as Maillet or Maillé.
Biography
Marie was born to Vital Mallet and Marguerite S ...
(1805–1871), Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Québec (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": January 27, 2014
* Joseph Staub (Marie-Clément) (1876–1936), Professed Priest of the Assumptionists; Founder of the Sisters of Saint Joan of Arc (Haut-Rhin, France – Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": April 3, 2014
*
Jeanne Mance
Jeanne Mance (November 12, 1606 – June 18, 1673) was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hospit ...
(prob. 1606–1673) Layperson of the Archdiocese of Montréal (Haute-Marne, France – Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": November 7, 2014
* William Gagnon (1905–1972), Professed Religious of the Hospitallers of Saint John of God
** Declared "Venerable": December 14, 2015
*
Aurélie Caouette (Catherine-Aurélie of the Precious Blood) (1833–1905), Founder of the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood (Québec, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": December 1, 2016
*
Élisabeth Bruyère
Élisabeth Bruyère or Bruguier (March 19, 1818 – April 5, 1876) was the founder of the Sisters of Charity of Bytown and opened the first hospital there and the first bilingual school in Ontario.
Biography
She was born Élisabeth Bruguier ...
(1818–1876), Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa (Québec – Ontario, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": April 14, 2018
*
Ovide Charlebois (1862–1933), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Apostolic Vicar of Keewatin; Titular Bishop of Berenice (Québec - Manitoba, Canada)
** Declared "Venerable": November 28, 2019
Servants of God
*
Jeanne Le Ber
Jeanne Le Ber (4 January 1662 – 3 October 1714) was a religious recluse in New France.
Family and education
Jeanne Le Ber was born in Ville-Marie (Montreal), on January 4, 1662. As a daughter of Jeanne Le Moyne and Jacques Le Ber, Jeann ...
(1662–1714), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Montréal (Québec, Canada)
* Martyrs of French Revolution:
** Anne Le Prince veuve le Blanc (1721–1794), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Quimper-Léon (Nova Scotia, Canada – Finistère, France)
** Anastasie le Blanc (1760–1794), Layperson of the Diocese of Quimper-Léon (Nova Scotia, Canada – Finistère, France)
*
Michael Power (1804–1847), Bishop of Toronto (Nova Scotia – Ontario, Canada)
* Stephen Eckert (Stephen of Dublin) (1869–1923), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins (Ontario, Canada – Wisconsin, United States)
* Elzéar DeLamarre (1854–1925), Priest of the Diocese of Chicoutimi; Founder of the Antonian Sisters of Mary (Québec, Canada)
* Vénérance Morin-Rouleau (Bernarda) (1832–1929), Founder of the Sisters of Providence of Chile
ow part of the Sisters of Providence of Montréal(Québec, Canada – Santiago, Chile)
* Léon Pratte (1864–1930), Priest of the Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe (Québec, Canada)
* Gérard Raymond (1912–1932), Seminarian of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada)
* Louis Doumain (1920–1944), Priest of the Diocese of Viviers; Martyr (Alberta, Canada – Saalekreis, Germany)
* Eugène Prévost (1860–1946), Priest and Founder of the Congregation of the Sacerdotal Fraternity and of the Oblate Sisters of Bethany (Québec – Maine-et-Loire, Canada)
* Albert L'Heureux (Alphonse) (1894–1947), Professed Priest of the Trappists; Martyr (Québec, Canada – Hebei, China)
* Louis Émond (1876–1949), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada)
* Victor Lelièvre (1876–1956), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Ille-et-Vilaine, France – Québec, Canada)
* Pierre Fallaize (1887–1964), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Auxiliary Bishop of MacKenzie (Calvados, France – Northwest Territories, Canada)
*
Georges-Philias Vanier (1888–1967), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Ottawa; Governor-General of Canada (Québec – Ottawa, Canada)
* Gilberte Lapierre (Marie-Claire) (1895–1979), Professed Religious of the Poor Clare Nuns (Québec, Canada)
*
Dorian LaPlante (Flavian) (1907–1981), Professed Religious of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Québec, Canada – Chittagong, Bangladesh)
*
Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine de Hueck Doherty (August 15, 1896 – December 14, 1985) was a Russian-Canadian Catholic Church, Catholic baroness, social worker, racial justice activist, and founder of Friendship House and Madonna House Apos ...
(1896–1985), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Pembroke; Founder of the Madonna House Apostolate (Nizhegorodskaya oblast’, Russia – Ontario, Canada)
*
Pauline Archer–Vanier (1898–1991), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Ottawa (Québec, Canada – Oise, France)
* Colette Lamontaigne Samson (1923–1991), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada)
* Carmelina Tarantino (Carmelina of the Cross) (1937–1992), Professed Religious of the Passionist Sisters of Saint Paul of the Cross (Naples, Italy – Ontario, Canada)
* Julienne Dallaire (Julienne du Rosaire) (1911–1995), Founder of the Dominican Missionary Adorers (Québec, Canada)
*
Emiliano Tardif
Emiliano Tardif (June 6, 1928 in the City of St-Zacharie, Quebec, Canada – June 8, 1999) was a missionary who is in the process of being beatified.
Life
Emiliano Tardif was born on June 6, 1928 in Quebec, Canada. He became a member of the Mis ...
milien(1928–1999), Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Founder of the Community of the Servants of the Living Christ (Québec, Canada – Córdoba, Argentina)
Candidates for sainthood
*
Nicolas Viel (d. 1625), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Recollects) (Coutances, France – Québec, Canada)
*
Auhaitsique huntsic(d. 1625), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada)
*
Joseph Chiwatenhwa (1602-1640) and Marie Aonetta (d.1650?), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada)
*
Barthélemy Vimont
Barthélemy Vimont (January 1, 1594 – July 13, 1667) was a French Jesuit missionary in New France, North America.
Biography
Born at Lisieux, he entered the Society of Jesus at Rouen in 1613. After his novitiate, he studied philosophy at th ...
(1594-1667), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Lisieux, France - Québec, Canada)
*
Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie
Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie (1603 – 18 November 1671) was a French woman who started the Order of Ursulines of Quebec
The Ursuline Monastery of Quebec City (french: Monastère des Ursulines de Québec) was founded by a missio ...
(1603-1671), Professed Religious of the Ursulines of Québec (Alençon, France – Québec, Canada)
*
Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot
Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot (aka Joseph Marie Chaumonot) (March 9, 1611 – February 21, 1693) was a French priest and Jesuit missionary who learned and documented the language of the Wyandot people, also known as the Huron. He studied at the ...
(1611-1693), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Châtillon-sur-Seine, France – Québec, Canada)
* Claude Pelletier (Didace) (1657-1699), Professed Religious of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Recollects) (Québec, Canada)
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Esther Wheelwright
Esther Wheelwright (31 March 1696 – 28 November 1780), also known as Mère Marie-Joseph de l'Enfant-Jésus, was born in Wells, Massachusetts (present day Maine). Wheelwright was captured during an attack of her village during Queen Anne's War ...
(Maria Joseph of the Infant Jesus) (1696–1780), Professed Religious of the Ursulines of Québec (Maine, USA – Québec, Canada)
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Frances Margaret Allen (1784–1819), Professed Religious of the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph (Vermont, USA – Québec, Canada)
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Esther Pariseau (Marie-Joseph of the Sacred Heart) (1823–1902), Professed Religious of the Sisters of Providence of Montréal (Québec, Canada – Washington, USA)
* Éléonore Potvin (Marie-Zita of Jesus) (1865-1903), Founder of the Servants of Jesus-Marie (Canada)
* Jean-Baptiste Rouvière (1881–1913), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Martyr (Lozères, France – Northwest Territories, Canada)
* Guillaume Le Roux (1885–1913), Professed Priests of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Martyr (Finistère, France – Northwest Territories, Canada)
* Alexis-Louis Mangin (1856-1920), Priest of the Archdiocese of Ottawa; Founder of the Servants of Jesus-Marie (Canada)
* Marie Bibeau (Marie-Anne de Jésus) (1865–1924), Founder of the Little Franciscans of Mary (Lower Canada, Canada – Massachusetts, USA)
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Marie Rose Ferron
Marie Rose Ferron (24 May 1902 – 11 May 1936), often called the Little Rose, was a Canadian-American Roman Catholic mystic and stigmatist.
Ferron was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2017.
Life
Ferron was born in ...
(1902-1936), Layperson of the Diocese of Providence (Canada-USA)
* Emma Tétu (Marie-Domitille) (1887–1942), Professed Religious of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (Québec, Canada)
* Martyrs of Fengxian (Jiangsu, China):
** Alphonse Dubé (1890–1943), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Québec, Canada)
** Prosper Bernard (1902–1943), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Québec, Canada)
** Armand Lalonde (1904–1943), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Québec, Canada)
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Rose Prince
Rose Prince (or Rose of the Carrier) was a Dakelh woman who has become the subject of a Catholic pilgrimage.
Biography
Rose Prince was born in Fort St. James, British Columbia, in 1915, the third of the nine children of Jean-Marie and Agathe Pr ...
(1915-1949), Layperson of the Diocese of Prince George (Canada)
* Léon Arcand (Didace) (1886–1952), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Québec, Canada – Shandong, China)
* Henri Roy (1898-1965), Professes Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Founder of the Secular Institute "Pius X" (Maine, USA - Quebec, Canada)
* James Arthur Mackinnon (1932–1965), Priest of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society; Martyr (Nova Scotia, Canada – Monte Plata, Dominican Republic)
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* Martyrs of Maseru, Lesotho:
** Almanzar Joseph Ménard (1906–1966), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Québec, Canada)
** Raynald Beauregard (1931–1976), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Québec, Canada)
* Maurice Lefebvre Beaudry (1922–1971), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Martyr (Québec, Canada – La Paz, Bolivia)
* Martyrs of Uganda:
** Jean-Paul Demers (1910–1971), Priest of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) (Québec, Canada)
** Gérard Perrault (1915–1971), Priest of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) (Québec, Canada)
** Wilfred Lépine (1923–1980), Priest of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) (Québec, Canada)
* Raoul Joseph Léger (1951–1981), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Moncton; Lay Missionary of the Québec Foreign Missionary Society; Martyr (New Brunswick, Canada – Guatemala City, Guatemala)
* Douglas William Main (John) (1926–1982), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (Olivetan Congregation) (London, United Kingdom – Québec, Canada)
* Claudia Murphy (Sybil) (1930-1996), Professed Religious of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (Nova Scotia, Canada – Cape Coast, Ghana)
* Mary Josephine Mulligan (1920–1996), Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate (Québec, Canada)
* Jean-Luc Hudon (Bernardin-Jean) (1936-1998), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers); Martyr (Québec, Canada – Sud-Est, Haiti)
* Martin John Royackers (1959-2001), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Ontario, Canada – Saint Mary, Jamaica)
* William Lloyd Ryan (1917–2003), Priest of the Diocese of Hamilton; Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate (Ontario – Québec, Canada)
* Richard Émile Joyal (1951-2013), Professed Priest of the Society of Mary (Marianists); Martyr (Manitoba, Canada – Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
See also
*Roman Catholic Church in Canada
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*List of American saints and beatified people
This list of American candidates for sainthood includes not only saints of the Catholic Church but also those who are not yet recognized as saints but as beati, venerabili, servants of God or candidates for sainthood and who are significant ...
* List of Mexican Saints
*List of Central American and Caribbean Saints
This page is a list of Central American and Caribbean saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God, as recognized by the Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the territories of North America ...
* List of saints of the Canary Islands
* List of Scandinavian saints
External links
* http://www.gcatholic.org/saints/canada-saints.htm
* http://www.catholicdoors.com/misc/canada.htm
References
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