Dina Bélanger
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Blessed Dina Bélanger R.J.M. |
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| Born |
30 April 1897 Québec, Canada |
| Died | 4 September 1929 (aged 32) Sillery, Québec, Canada |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 20 March 1993, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 4 September |
| Attributes | Religious habit |
| Patronage | Musicians |
Blessed Dina Bélanger (30 April 1897 - 4 September 1929) - in religious Marie of Saint Cecilia of Rome - was a Canadian professed religious and a professed member from the Religieuses de Jésus-Marie. Bélanger was a noted musician and learnt the piano from her late childhood while teaching this later in her life though a period of ill health ceased this; successive bouts of poor health never hindered her spiritual or musical aspirations though weakened her due to contracting tuberculosis. Her biographical account - spanning from 1924 until just a couple of months prior to her death - details her spiritual encounters with Jesus Christ in a series of visions.
Bélanger's beatification was celebrated on 20 March 1993.
Dina Bélanger was born on 30 April 1897 in Québec (in the Saint-Roch parish) to Olivier Octave Bélanger (21.04.1871-21.07.1852) and Séraphia Matte (18.04.1870-18.08.1951); her baptism was celebrated just hours later and she was baptized in the names of "Marie-Marguerite-Dina-Adélaïde" with the last being in honor of her paternal grandmother. There was a brother that was born seventeen months after her but Joseph-Simeon-Gustave (September-December 1898) died three months after.
In 1903 her mother would begin to take her hand and make the Sign of the Cross with it for it was her mother who instilled in her deep and long-lasting religious principles. The girl loved the Angelus but did not understand Latin save for Amen at the end and she ran upstairs for it when the bell rang announcing the beginning of the Angelus. Her mother took her to Mass in her childhood but also to novenas and sermons but she felt the latter were boring so once brought the stoneware doll she named Valeda; her mother did not like it and asked it be left alone but she would still use it which prompted her mother to put it in her purse. Bélanger was reprimanded at home and her mother hid it next time the pair went to Mass but she found this and received another reprimand that ceased this habit. Bélanger also had a mischievous side but also a temper. In 1901 she threw a tantrum. Then her father arose from the table and joined in. She stopped upon seeing her father do that; she was mortified and never threw tantrums after that.
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