Beloeil, Quebec
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Belœil is a town in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu. It is within the Administrative Region of Montérégie.
According to the Canada 2001 Census:
- Population: 19,053
- % Change (1996-2001): -1.2
- Dwellings: 7,254
- Area (km²): 24.09
- Density (persons per km²): 791.0
Bl. Marie Rose Durocher, foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, lived here for a time as the housekeeper for her brother, Father Theophile Durocher. Her feast is kept on October 6.
She wrote, "Do not imitate those persons who, after having spent a few months as a postulant or novice in a community, dress differently, even ludicrously. You are returning to the secular state. My advice is, follow the styles of the day, but from afar, as it were."
She is the patronness of the sick and those who have lost both parents.
[edit] See also
- In 1864 a serious railway accident in which 99 were killed took place near Beloeil. See List of rail accidents.
[edit] References
| North: Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu | ||
| West: Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil |
Beloeil | East: Mont-Saint-Hilaire |
| South: Saint-Basile-le-Grand, McMasterville |
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