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St. Joseph's Oratory

Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal
Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal
Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal - Montreal.jpg
Basic information
Location 3800, chemin Queen Mary
Montreal, Quebec
H3V 1H6
Geographic coordinates 45°29′30″N 73°37′00″W / 45.491667°N 73.616667°W / 45.491667; -73.616667Coordinates: 45°29′30″N 73°37′00″W / 45.491667°N 73.616667°W / 45.491667; -73.616667
Affiliation Roman Catholic
District Archdiocese of Montreal
Country Canada
Ecclesiastical or organizational status Minor basilica
Leadership Father Claude Grou
Website http://www.saint-joseph.org/
Architectural description
Architect(s) Dalbé Viau, Alphonse Venne, Lucien Parent, Emilien Bujold and Dom Paul Bellot
Architectural type Oratory, domed basilica
Architectural style Italian renaissance
Completed 1967
Construction cost $2.3 Million (CAD)
Specifications
Direction of façade NNW
Capacity 10,000 / 2,400 sitting
Length 105 metres (344 ft)
Width 65 metres (213 ft)
Width (nave) 37 metres (121 ft)
Height (max) 129 metres (423 ft)
Dome(s) one (1)
Dome height (outer) 97 metres (318 ft) (from nave floor)
Dome height (inner) 60 metres (200 ft) (from nave floor)
Dome dia. (outer) 39 metres (128 ft)
Dome dia. (inner) 26 metres (85 ft)
Materials Canadian granite, copper
Official name: Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal National Historic Site of Canada
Designated 2004

Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal (French: Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and national shrine on Westmount Summit in Montreal, Quebec. It is Canada's largest church and the twenty-seventh largest church building in the world.

The basilica enshrines a statue of Saint Joseph, which was authorised a Canonical coronation by Pope Pius XII on 31 July 1955, now located within its crypt department. The shrine is also famous due to its association with Brother Andre Bessette who was believed to possess healing powers through his Josephian devotion with its notable oil oinment given freely to its believers.

In 1904, Saint André Bessette, C.S.C., began the construction of St. Joseph, a small chapel on the slopes of Mont Royal near Notre Dame College. Soon the growing number of the congregation made it too small. In 1917 a larger church was completed that had a seating capacity of 1,000. In 1924, the construction of the basilica of Saint Joseph's Oratory was commenced; it was finally completed in 1967.

Father Paul Bellot, an architect, completed the dome of Saint Joseph's Oratory between 1937-39. The dome is the third-largest of its kind in the world after the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro in Côte d'Ivoire and Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.


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