Canada - Canadian healer, Brother André, has been proclaimed a saint by Pope Benedict XVI. Founder of the St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, Brother André was born in 1845 in St-Gregoire-d'Iberville, Quebec. Considered unimposing in his presence and functionally illiterate, he has become the most popular religious figure in Quebec. Tens of thousands attribute miraculous healing to his intervention with his patron, St. Joseph.In 1904, with the help of his working-class followers, Brother André built a small oratory (shrine) to St. Joseph on the slopes of Mount Royal. He was subject to poor health throughout his own life but nobly accepted his lot in the spirit that suffering brings one closer to Jesus on the cross. He died in 1937 at the age of 91.
Praising the saint as a "a humble man" whose "faith could move mountains," Cardinal Archbishop Turcotte said, “Brother André’s life shows us the power of faith and the importance of concern for the sick and others in need."
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