FROM THE DIRECTOR
Vol. 75 No. 1 2010
Dear Friends of the Martyrs’ Shrine,
What’s Inside Director’s Message Page 1 St. Ignace (Part 2) Page 2 Who are These Holy Martyrs? Page 3 Novena to the Canadian Martyrs Prayers Page 4 Feast Day Homily 2008 Page 5 and 6 and 7
I hope you had a blessed and holy Christmas and are looking forward to a holy and happy Easter. We are into a new year and my prayer for each of you is that the good Lord will bountifully bless you and yours. Even though the air is cold and snow lies thick on the ground may our risen Lord give you a blessed and holy year. I’m sure your thoughts, like mine, are turning to the coming spring and all the promise it holds. Are you ready for the Shrine 2010 season? Just a reminder for the 2010 season that once again we are not going to have a 10:30 a.m. Mass during the weekdays of May, June, September and October. We tried this new schedule last year and no one even missed the dropped Mass. For the weekends of May, June, September and October we will have our full slate of Masses, that is 9:00 am, 10:30 am, 12:00 noon and 7:30 pm. Once again we have a full roster of ethnic pilgrimages for the 2010 season. Elsewhere in this publication you can find the 2010 schedule. You will note that we have added one new ethnic pilgrimage, the Goa pilgrimage. This is a new group that has requested a time slot during our season. Let’s pray that our good Lord will bless the efforts of the organizers of this new pilgrimage. For a number of years now we have been holding steady with some 95,000 pilgrims each season. Last year (2009) we experienced a significant increase in our numbers. When all was said and done we hosted some 5,000 more pilgrims than the years before. Praise God! The Walk Where They Walked program will once again be hosting 3,000 plus students this spring and fall. The success of this program continues to be a great blessing to the Shrine. This is especially true when one keeps in mind that these young folk are our pilgrims of the future. For those who visit us in 2010 you will note that the Knights of Columbus project, the refurbishing of the siding on the upper level of the Shrine Church, is now complete. May the good Lord continue to bless the Knights for their goodness to us. On a final note, after much reflection and consideration the Shrine has decided to increase its gate fees for the individual Day Pass from $3.00 to $4.00 and for the Bus Pass from $50.00 to $60.00. This is the first increase in our gate fees in over 15 years. When one considers how much expenses in general have gone up in the past 15 years this increase in our gate fees is quite modest by comparison. You are reminded that our gate fees are needed for the upkeep of our beautiful grounds and flowerbeds. May the good Lord bless and keep you and yours over the winter. We hope to see all of you at the Shrine next season.
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Rev. Alex Kirsten, S.J., Director
St. Ignace II --- Canada's Calvary Part II by Steve Catlin After the dispersion of the Hurons (Wendat) in 1649 and the return of the Jesuit missionaries and their converts to Quebec in 1650, both because of the ongoing threat of invasion by the Iroquois, the region now known Simcoe County was left unpopulated by the Europeans for a span of about two hundred years. Wendat village sites and even Ste. Marie I and Ste. Marie II became overgrown and unrecognizable to the untrained eye. The memory of these people and the Jesuit mission, however, were not completely forgotten. Early settlers began turning up native pottery and French iron axes with their ploughs, and in 1844, a Jesuit by the name of Fr. Pierre Chazelle, SJ began exploring the region, saying Mass at the ruins of Ste. Marie and searching with devotion for the village of St. Ignace II, the scene of the martyrdom of Sts. Brébeuf and Lalemant. Other Jesuits would follow: those who were stationed at the mission on Manitoulin Island (Frs. Point, Hanipaux, SJ), and others who specifically came to reclaim the area as part of their Jesuit heritage (Frs. Martin, Jones). With only the references of St. Ignace II in the Jesuit Relations as their guide, these educated priests none of whom were trained archaeologists could not find this hallowed site. It was not until the early decades of the twentieth century that a very devout local lay man, Mr. Alphonse Arpin, was able to find the site of St. Ignace II. With the assistance of Thomas George Connon from Elora, Ontario, Alphonse traveled the old Wendat trails until he discovered a site that fit the description of St. Ignace II found in the Jesuit Relations. It has been said, that while he and others were at prayer at the site, balls of fire would emit from the ground. It is also said that Alphonse buried a holy card of St. Térèse of Lisieux in an envelope at St. Ignace II and when he returned to recover it, the envelope was unchanged while the holy card had red stains on it. Based on their deductions, professional archaeologists such as Wintemberg and later Jury explored and excavated the site. In 1946, St. Ignace II was identified on the west half of lot 6 in Tay Township. Since 1946, St. Ignace II has become a special place of pilgrimage and today holds a very special place in the prayer lives of many Catholics living in the Midland-Waubaushene area. In the late 1950's, Fr. Denis Hegarty, SJ found two burnt posts in the ground at St. Ignace II, and identified them as the posts to which Sts. Brébeuf and Lalemant were bound and tortured. It must also be noted that Fr. Hegarty found the grave of Brébeuf at Ste. Marie I in 1954. More recently, the late Michael Bernier of Michigan, a descendant of Alphonse Arpin, donated funds to construct an outdoor shelter for the altar at St. Ignace II and a monument to his grandfather and Mr. Connon. Local historian Cecilia Hartley and surveyor Frank Poliquin of Barrie, both of fond memory, assisted greatly in keeping the story of St. Ignace II alive in the hearts and minds of many. Gerry Juneau, who worked with Wilfrid Jury in 1946, continues to share his experience of the dig with those interested. Finally, for over the past fifteen years, Deacon Elmer Lampe of Ohio has devoted his time searching for the original trails linking the Wendat village sites of St. Louis and St. Ignace II. Because of his work, pilgrims can walk where the Martyrs’ walked - the path to Canada’s Calvary. Page -2- Martyrs’ Shrine MESSAGE
Who Are These Holy Martyrs? Saint Jean de Brébeuf, S.J. Martyred March 16, 1649. Jean de Brébeuf, born in Normandy, was ordained to the priesthood at the age of 33. He was the first Jesuit Missionary in Huronia (1626), a master of the Native language, worked through all the district of Huronia for thirteen years, founded Mission outposts and converted thousands to the faith. He was known as the Apostle of the Hurons. He was massive in body, strong, yet gentle in character. Before leaving Normandy, he revealed his sentiments. “I felt a strong desire to suffer something for Christ.” He made a vow signed in his blood, never to refuse the offer of Martyrdom if asked to die for Christ. He was captured March 16, 1649 and tortured for hours. He was Martyred at St. Ignace, six miles from Ste. Marie, at the age of 56. Saint Isaac Jogues, S.J. Martyred October 18, 1646. Isaac Jogues was a priest only seven months and was 29 years of age when he came to Canada in 1636. He set out at once for Huronia. For three years he served at Mission outposts, instructing and baptizing. On a return journey from Quebec, he was captured by the Iroquois, brutally tortured, and made a slave. Thirteen months later he escaped to France. By the next year he was back in Canada and was sent as an emissary to discuss a treaty with the Iroquois. He went, “his heart seized with dread,” at the prospect of again falling into the hands of his torturers. He was seized at Ossernenan (now Auriesville, N.Y.) and cruelly beaten. A blow from a tomahawk gave him the crown of Martyrdom on October 18, 1646, at the age of 39. Saint Gabriel Lalemant, S.J. Martyred March 17, 1649. Gabriel Lalemant, a Parisian, became a Jesuit at age 19. His ambition was to labour in the Missions and he asked to be sent to the Canadian Missions. He was “one of the most feeble and delicate in health.” A scholar, he was professor of Philosophy, and dean of studies in French Colleges. He arrived in Huronia in September 1648 where in words of Scriptures, he was destined to complete a long time in a short space. In Huronia seven months, just beginning to speak the Native tongue, he was sent to assist Brébeuf in February 1649. He was captured with Brébeuf and tortured for seventeen hours at the stake. Gabriel Lalemant died on March 17 in his 39th year, at St. Ignace, six miles from Ste. Marie. Saint Antoine Daniel, S.J. Martyred July 4, 1648. Antoine Daniel was born in Normandy and became a Jesuit and was ordained a priest at 29. He answered a strong call to the Missions of Canada and was a Missioner near Bras d’Or Lakes (1632). He founded the first boys’ College in North America (Quebec 1635) and laboured in Huronia for twelve years. He mastered the language and dreamed of forming future catechists among the Hurons who would instruct other members of their tribe. The Mission was attacked by the Iroquois in July 1648. Daniel encouraged the converts to meet death as Christians should; he hastily baptized all he could and went out to face the enemy. His body was pierced with arrows and bullets.
The Iroquois set fire to the Chapel and threw his body into the flames. He was Martyred at Mount St. Louis, 12 miles from Ste. Marie at the age of 48. Saint Charles Garnier, S.J. Martyred December 7, 1649. Charles Garnier, a Parisian, a Jesuit, and a priest, was attracted to the arduous Missions of Canada. He came to Huronia at the age of thirty-one and for thirteen years laboured among the Hurons and Petuns. He was a victim of the Iroquois massacre of the village of Etharita, thirty miles from Ste. Marie. He refused to escape but exercised his charity to the end. Saint Charles Garnier was always a person of innocence and purity with a strong devotion to Our Lady whom he acknowledged looked after him as a youth. Gentle, innocent, fearless, he succeeded in winning many souls to God both at St. Joseph’s Mission and among the Petuns. Saint Noël Chabanel, S.J. Martyred December 8, 1649. Noël Chabanel became a Jesuit at the age of seventeen, a priest at twenty-eight, and was a successful professor and humanist in France. Experiencing a strong desire to consecrate himself to the Canadian Missions, he arrived in Quebec in 1643 and then travelled to Huronia. The enthusiasm of the young missionary quickly lost its glamour. Unable to learn the Native language, feeling useless in the ministry, sensitive to the surroundings, his life was to be one unbroken chain of disappointments, an ordeal that he himself called a “bloodless Martyrdom.” Tempted to return to France, he bound himself by a vow to remain in New France till death. For two years he stood in the shadow of death and then was slain secretly by an apostate Huron on the banks of the Nottawasaga, twenty-five miles from Ste. Marie on December 8, 1649. Saint René Goupil, S.J. Martyred September 29, 1642. René Goupil entered the Jesuit Order but had to leave because of ill health. He studied medicine and then offered his services to the Jesuit Missions in Canada. On his way to Huron country with Isaac Jogues in 1642, they were captured by the Iroquois, tortured and taken to the Mohawk country. On the journey to Mohawk country he begged Isaac Jogues to receive his vows. A month later he was martyred for making the sign of the cross on a little Native child. He was martyred at Auriesville, N.Y. at the age of thirty-five, on September 29, 1642. Saint Jean de LaLande, S.J. Martyred October 19, 1646. Jean de LaLande was a young layman who offered his services to the Jesuits of New France. He accompanied Isaac Jogues to the Mohawk Mission in 1646, knowing what he might have to suffer, gladly offering himself as a companion to Jogues and looking to God to protect him and to be his reward if the sacrifice of his life was demanded. With Isaac Jogues, he was tortured and threatened with death. He saw the martyrdom of Jogues on October 18. He himself was martyred on the following day at Auriesville, N.Y. Martyrs’ Shrine MESSAGE Page -3-
Invitation & Novena Prayers
We invite you to join in the Novena to the Canadian Martyrs and St. Joseph, March 11-19, 2010. During these nine days we honour all the Martyrs and commemorate the martyrdoms of St. Jean de Brébeuf and St. Gabriel Lalemant and the Feast of St. Joseph (March 19) in whom the Martyrs placed great trust.
A Novena of Masses and the Novena Prayers to the Martyrs will be offered for the intentions of all making the Novena. Intentions that are sent to the Shrine will be left on the altar beside the relics of the Martyrs during the Novena. May St. Joseph and the Martyrs, patrons of Canada, intercede for all of us and for our country.
PRAYER TO THE MARTYRS
Holy Martyrs and patrons, protect this land which you have blessed by the shedding of your blood. Renew in these days our Catholic faith which you have helped to establish in this new land. Bring all our fellow citizens to a knowledge and love of the truth. Make us zealous in the profession of our faith so that we may continue and perfect the work which you have begun with so much labour and suffering. Pray for our homes, our schools, our missions, for vocations, for the conversion of sinners, the return of those who have wandered from the fold, and the perseverance of all the Faithful. And foster a deeper and increasing unity among all Christians. Amen.
PRAYER TO OUR LADY
Glorious Queen of Martyrs, to whom the early missionaries of this country were so devoted and from whom they received so many favours, graciously listen to my petition. Ask your Divine Son to remember all they did for His glory. Remind Him that they preached the gospel and made His holy name known to thousands who had never heard of Him, and then for Him had their apostolic labours crowned by shedding their blood. Exercise your motherly influence as you did at Cana, and implore Him to grant me what I ask in this Novena, if it be according to His will. Amen.
PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH
(Patron of the Martyrs and of Canada) O God, who in your special Providence deigned to choose blessed Joseph to be the spouse of your holy Mother, grant, we beseech you, that we may deserve to have him as our intercessor in heaven whom we venerate on earth as our protector. You who live and reign in the world without end. Amen.
NOVENA PRAYER
O God, who by the preaching and the blood of Your blessed Martyrs, Jean and Isaac and their companions, consecrated the first fruits of faith in the vast regions of North America, graciously grant that by their intercession the flourishing harvest of Christians may be everywhere and always increased. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
PRAYER OF PETITION
O God, who inflamed the hearts of your blessed Martyrs with an admirable zeal for the salvation of souls, grant me, I beseech you, my petitions, so that the favours obtained through their intercession may make manifest before your people the power and the glory of your name. Amen.
St. Jean de Brébeuf, pray for us St. Charles Garnier, pray for us St. Isaac Jogues, pray for us St. Noël Chabanel, pray for us St. Gabriel Lalemant, pray for us St. René Goupil, pray for us St. Antoine Daniel, pray for us St. Jean de LaLande, pray for us Holy Mary, Queen of Martyrs, pray for us Page -4- Martyrs’ Shrine MESSAGE
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At the beginning of my homily today, I wish to express my gratitude to Father Kirsten for his gracious invitation to preside at this Eucharist in what is a very special place for me and many of you. It is a joy for me to return to a spot that holds such precious memories for me as a Jesuit. There is a phrase in the Epistle to the Hebrews that I have always associated with the missionaries of Huronia because it is used in the readings proper to the Jesuit celebration of the Martyrs Feast. In telling how people lived in faith, the author of Hebrews speaks of some wandering over the face of the earth while yearning for their heavenly homeland: “Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection. Others suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented—of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and holes in the ground” (Hebrews 11:35b-38). Our evangelist is giving a description of how, throughout salvation history, people signalled that they lived by faith, seeking a homeland better than they knew. Our biblical author shows us that he reads salvation history in a new way—in the lives of the faith community's forebears—hoping thereby to persuade his contemporaries that they, too, can live heroically. Similarly, the example of the Martyrs, though in a different time and culture, should model our witnessing to Christ in our daily lives. For they in the past and we in the present are being enlightened by the Holy Spirit into discovering unexpected truths. The prism through which all of reality and every human experience are being filtered lies in Christ's passion, death and resurrection. For Jesus is described in Hebrews 12 as “the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the sake of the joy that was set before Him Jesus endured the Cross, disregarding its shame” (Hebrews 12:2). The same reality can be looked at from a variety of angles. This is what the New Testament did also with regard to the death of Jesus. The sign of opprobrium, of rejection, of disgrace and shame— the cross as instrument of crucifixion—became the sign of glory and the model for all of Christian discipleship. The power of the Paschal Mystery to shed light on and interpret faith experiences is one of the many parallels we may find in the life and death of the Martyrs and the Epistle to the Hebrews. Today, I would like to focus our reflection on the Martyrs upon the first missionary to die in Huronia, Antoine Daniel on July 4, 1648.
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By Very Reverend Terrence T. Prendergast, SJ
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Born in Dieppe on May 27, 1601, Antoine Daniel had already begun legal studies when he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at Rouen on October 1, 1621. He was a teacher of junior classes at the Collège in Rouen (1623–27), studied theology at the Collège in Clermont (1627–30), taught humanities (1630–1631), and was minister at the Collège in Eu (1631–32). In 1626 Father Charles Lalemant wrote from Quebec to his brother Jerome: “A little Huron is going to see you; he longs to see France. He is very fond of us and manifests a strong desire to be instructed; nevertheless, his father and the Captain of the nation wishes to see him next year, assuring us that, if he is satisfied, he will give him to us for some years. It is of importance that he should be thoroughly satisfied, for if this child is once instructed, it will open the way to many tribes where he will be very useful.” The young Huron lad in question, Amantacha, was baptized at Rouen during the time that Father Daniel was a teacher at the college and the presence of the young Huron at Rouen may have played some part in his missionary vocation. In 1632, Father Daniel arrived at Cape Breton, where the habitation was under the command of his brother Charles, a French captain. The following year 1633, he was at Quebec and was assigned, with Jean de Brébeuf to the Huron Mission though their departure did not take place until 1634. No missionary experienced the hardships and perils offered at that period by the trip into Huronia as much as Father Daniel did; in 1634 and again in 1638 he was abandoned on the way by his guides. He soon found himself not only alone but ill, and he attributed to special divine protection the fact that he was able to reach his destination at all. The return trip he made in 1636 was equally arduous, and on arrival at Trois-Rivières he was literally exhausted. Daniel made rapid progress in learning the language, and he had soon taught the children to sing the Our Father and Creed in Huron. His kindness, his gentleness, and his gifts as a teacher caused him to be assigned to a new apostolate that the missionaries, in their lack of experience of the actual circumstances, thought both feasible and full of promise for the propagation of the faith: the founding at Quebec of a seminary to which young Hurons would come to be trained in Christian knowledge and virtues. That college founded in Quebec is sometimes seen as the foundation of Toronto’s Regis College.
So great were the hopes aroused by this foundation that Huronia sacrificed for it one of its best missionaries, and the Jesuits at Quebec deprived themselves of the services of five very useful servants. Two years’ experience was to show that the children of Huronia were not suited to, and not suitable for, this European type of education. The splendid dream came to naught, and brought about Father Daniel’s return to active missionary life. He devoted himself to it indefatigably and effectively for ten years. On July 4, 1648 the Iroquois overran the Saint-Joseph II mission (Teanaostaiaë, near Hillsdale, Simcoe County, Ontario) just as Father Daniel was finishing his Mass. He encouraged the neophytes and spoke so movingly of the truths of the faith that the pagans in large numbers asked him to baptize them. After wreaking havoc in the village, the Iroquois attacked the chapel: “Flee,” said the missionary to his congregation, “and keep the faith to your dying breath.” As for himself, his life belonged to the souls in his charge. He left the chapel and strode towards the enemy, who were astonished by such courage. When the first moment of stupefaction had passed, his body was riddled with arrows. A bullet struck him in the chest, passing through his body, and he fell uttering the name of Jesus. After desecrating his body, the Iroquois threw it into the fire that was consuming the chapel. As the first martyr of Huronia, Father Daniel, even after his death, inspired in his brother missionaries a wealth of tenderness and encouragement. Father Ragueneau, his superior, spoke of him in a letter to the general of the order as "a truly remarkable man, humble, obedient, united with God, of never failing patience and indomitable courage in adversity" (Thwaites, tr. Relations, XXXIII, 253-269). In this Year of the Priest 2009-2010, various models of selfless service are set before us: the holy Cure d’Ars and St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, whose feast was earlier this week: great confessors and reformers of the priesthood in their day. But the model of priestly heroism surely extends to the martyrdom of Antoine Daniel who, like Jesus the Good Shepherd, laid down his life for his flock. “The first decades of the seventeenth century were a real springtime for the Church in France. Mysticism, missionary zeal, charitable works—all came together in an outburst of holiness” (M.J. Lacroix in Companions of Jesus: Spiritual Profiles of the Jesuit Saints and Beati; Rome: General’s Curia, 1974, p. 73). The outburst of holiness included St. John Francis Regis, to whose tomb St. Jean Marie Vianney made a pilgrimage as he discerned his call to the priesthood; it also included, I believe, Antoine Daniel and our other martyr saints of Huronia and New York recalled today. The gospel reading, drawn from Matthew's gospel, encapsulates the spiritual motivation for all that the Christians of Huronia did—how they lived and with what dispositions they wished to die. The second half of the gospel begins with Jesus telling His disciples about the divine logic that permitted His suffering and death as the way of His total self-donation to others and the Father. God's response to such selfless love lies in the resurrection, the beginning of a new way of being present to people in their need, the Kingdom of God and life eternal. The foolishness of the divine logic is that others are called to enter on the same way to eternal life by living in this world as Jesus did. “If anyone wants to be my follower, let him or her deny self, take up the cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 16:24-25). This was the outlook the Martyrs absorbed as they prayed daily, and as they steeped themselves in gospel spirituality during their annual retreat, when they contemplated their Lord and Saviour in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, their spiritual guide and mentor. It was also the experience of St. Paul in the first reading which speaks of the missionary disciple as carrying in his body the “dying of Jesus” so that the risen “life may be made visible in our mortal flesh”. Now well into the Third Millennium of Christ's coming in our midst, we want to share the Good News with our age. In the Jesuit Relations are contained words of advice on how to be an effective evangelist drawing people to Christ. Written by an experienced missioner for a newly-arrived recruit, it intended to draw the Native People to Christ. It can serve as a model for us in drawing those who do not yet know Christ to follow Him. “Not so much knowledge is necessary as friendship and sound virtue. The four elements of an apostolic person in New France are charm, humility, patience and generous friendship. Too anxious a zeal scorches more than it warms and ruins everything. Great kindness and adaptability are necessary to attract gradually these Indians. They do not understand our theology too well, but they understand our humility and our friendliness, and allow themselves to be won.” We pray today that, as we strive to emulate the Jesuit Martyr-saints of North America in evangelizing others with the Gospel of Life, we may take these words to heart along with the genuine self-sacrificing love of those who lived the faith in Huronia before us. Then we will know how to give ourselves in love as Antoine Daniel did and gladly share the Good News in our day as the Canadian Martyrs did in theirs.
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Annual Celebration of the Feast of the Jesuit Martyrs By: Rev. Len Altilia, SJ
Each year the Martyrs' Shrine in Midland, Ontario celebrates the feast of the Jesuit Martyrs of New France, to whom the Shrine is dedicated. This year's celebration took place on Saturday, September 26, the date on which the Canadian Church celebrates their feast. About 700 people attended the mass celebrated by Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, S.J., Archbishop of Ottawa, and several Jesuit priests. Archbishop Prendergast delivered an inspiring homily (see elsewhere for this item) focusing on the experience of St. Antoine Daniel, S.J., the first of the Huronia Jesuits to be martyred in 1648. Among the participants were 23 novices from three Jesuit novitiates, representing eight Jesuit provinces in Canada and the United States: Montreal, Quebec (French and English Canada), Syracuse, New York (New York, New England, and Maryland), and Berkeley, Michigan (Wisconsin, Chicago, and Detroit). Across North America there are 6 Jesuit novitiates with approximately 85 novices, over two years. Those attending this celebration were all in their first year. Following the Mass, there was a reception for all of the attendees in the Filion Centre below the Shrine church. Later in the afternoon, the Jesuits gathered with members of the Board of Directors of Martyrs' Shrine and invited friends of the Shrine for a social and dinner.
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In your kindness please keep us in your prayers: Rev. Alex Kirsten, SJ To be announced Rev. Keith Langstaff, SJ Rev. Stephen LeBlanc, SJ Rev. Patrick Coldricks, SJ
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Czech Vietnamese (Sat.) First Nations Italian National Pilgrimage
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Korean Holy Crucifixion Community Slovak India, Pakistan (Sat.) Chinese Pilgrimage (Sat.) German Pilgrimage Tamil Catholic Community (Sat.) Croation Pilgrimage Archdiocese of Toronto Youth Rally
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Filipino (Sat.) Walking Pilgrimage (Sat.) Polish Hungarian (Sat.) Hispanic Pilgrimage (Sat.) Lithuanian Mission Sunday Communal Anointing Service Irish (Sat.) Goa Pilgrimage Group
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Archdiocesan Western Region (Sat.) Slovenian International Order of Alhambra 26th Annual Living Rosary Celebration The Feast of the Canadian Martyrs (Sat.)
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