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Article: Raised from the dead: after years of enervation, the Church in Quebec is finding new sources of energy in Quebec City de Souza.(Reprint)
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- Catholic Insight
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- July 1, 2008
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This year, just in time for today's feast of St. Jean Baptiste, there is a renewed religious spirit here. The Archdiocese of Quebec has just finished hosting a very successful International Eucharistic Congress, the closing Mass of which was celebrated on the Plains of Abraham for a crowd of some 50,000 who listened to Pope Benedict XVI via video-link from Rome. With over 10,000 delegates from all over the world, the week-long congress was a manifestation of Quebec's Catholic culture not seen here in more than a few generations.
Today the holiday is called La Fete Nationale, an even more banal title, as improbable as that would seem, than our "Canada Day." Just ...