Proper nutrition

Brother André had a particular love for the Eucharist

and encouraged people to go to Communion frequently:

“If you ate only one meal a week

would you survive?

It is the same for your soul.”

  

St. André Bessette
1845-1937

Holy Cross Brother, porter

Miracle worker of Montreal

Great devotion to St Joseph

Feast Day - January 6

"I am only a man, just like you," time after time Br André Bessette

reminded petitioners who came to him.  Known as a miracle worker

of healing during his lifetime, this humble lay brother insisted on

giving all the credit to God, the faith of those healed, and the

intercession of St Joseph.  Quietly, he said, 'I will pray for you.' 

Time after time, healing came.  ...."He spent his whole life speaking

of others to God, and of God to others," said a friend of Br Andre.

"It is difficult to say at what point in his life work began and ended,

and at what point prayer started and ended: the two seemed to flow

so naturally one into the other."

Ste. André Bessette, ora pro nobis!

When Alfred (later to be Brother Andre) Bessette

came to the Holy Cross Brothers in 1870, he carried with him

a note from his pastor saying, "I am sending you a saint."

  He died in 1937, at the age of 91.  A million people filed before his coffin.

“It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints

the most exquisitely beautiful pictures,” said St. André Bessette.