We are blessed on Wolfe Island with a magnificent church — more like a cathedral, visitors often say. Dedicated to our Lady under the title of the Sacred Heart of Mary, it was built in 1916-1917, and dedicated in June 1918. I had begun thinking a few years back how to mark the centennial.
Amidst the rubble left by the fire that consumed St. Theresa Point Catholic Church on Easter Sunday laid a picture of St. Kateri Tekakwitha almost completely intact.
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Features
April 7, 2021
Arson suspected in Manitoba church fire on Easter
Just hours after Easter Sunday Mass, residents of St. Theresa Point First Nation in Manitoba could only watch and cry as their Catholic church burned to the ground.
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Canada
July 31, 2020
New life for parish after devastating fire
ST. ISIDORE, ONT. -- When the historic church in St. Isidore, built in 1879, was destroyed by fire after a lightning storm in 2016, the community vowed off that the spiritual centre of the small French-Canadian community in eastern Ontario would rise again.
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Canada
July 27, 2020
Cathedral volunteer charged with arson for Nantes fire
NANTES, France -- A Rwandan is facing up to 10 years in prison after he confessed to deliberately setting fire to the city's Gothic cathedral.
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International
July 20, 2020
Arson suspected as cause of fire at Nantes Cathedral
NANTES, France -- French police have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a Gothic cathedral in Nantes.
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International
LOS ANGELES -- The fire that ravaged Mission San Gabriel Arcangel church in the predawn hours of July 11 left behind a haunting scene.
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International
December 14, 2017
Fr. Raymond J. De Souza: A blessing of Providence after church fire
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