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June 27, 2015

Montreal marks 400 years since Champlain’s first Mass

Montreal Archbishop Christian Lepine celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first Mass on the Island of Montreal on a birch bark canoe altar June 24. The Mass, held at St. John the Baptist Church, included a re-enactment of explorer Samuel de Champlain and two Franciscans, Frs. Denys Jamet and Joseph le Caron, who came ashore during one of his journeys to the New World

MONTREAL - Montreal Archbishop Christian Lepine celebrated Mass on a birch bark canoe altar June 24 to mark the feast of St. John the Baptist while at the same time commemorating the 400th anniversary of what is widely thought to be the first Mass ever celebrated on the Island of Montreal.

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