Our Lady of Good Help - March 5th, 2026 | No Greater Delight
March 5: Our Lady of Good Help, Montreal, Canada (1657)
Dedicated to Our Lady of Good Help, Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours for 350 years has been the sanctuary for seamen leaving Montreal for the seven seas. A wooden chapel was built in 1657; replaced in 1675 by a building whose foundations serve the present church which was erected in 1771.
Over the entrance is an inscribed message: “If the love of Mary is graven in your heart, forget not a prayer in passing.”
Our Lady of Good Help is a beautiful little church, with fine paintings. On the walls are mosaics of Marguerite Bourgeoys, who inspired the first chapel; and of Maisonneuve, founder of Montreal, said to have felled the first oak for the chapel.
A narrow stairway, lined with pilgrims’ acknowledgments, leads to an aerial chapel set in the roof. Here is a facsimile of the Santa Casa, the house of the Virgin carried by angels from Nazareth to Loreto.
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Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (Montréal)
La chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours est une église de pèlerinage de Montréal, fondée par Marguerite Bourgeoys en 1655. Elle est située sur la rue Saint-Paul, à l'intersection de la rue de Bonsecours, dans le Vieux-Montréal. La construction en pierre de 1773 en fait la plus ancienne église dans l'île de Montréal après celle de La Visitation-du-Sault-au-Récollet qui date de 1749.