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

Canada ~ 1845-1937*

*75th Anniversary of death

Holy Cross Brother, porter

Miracle Man of Montreal

Great devotion to Eucharist and 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 André. "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."

St. André Bessette, ora pro nobis!

When Alfred (later to be Brother André) 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 age 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.

MUST SEE VIDEO:  http://brother-andre.saint-joseph.org/en/
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